Las estrategias contrarrevolucionarias de Jacinto V. de Molina

Abstract

En el presente estudio se analizan las claves ideológicas de la obra de Jacinto V. de Molina, un escritor afrodescendiente y una figura excepcional en su época. Nacido en la frontera entre los imperios portugués y español, pasó la mayor parte de su vida en Montevideo. Sus escritos (nunca publicados en vida) abarcan un corpus vasto, y a veces caótico, de temas históricos, religiosos, filosóficos, jurídicos y autobiográficos. Molina se movió siempre entre diferentes contextos políticos, dedicó sus escritos a la defensa del Antiguo Régimen y trató de demostrar sus cualidades intelectuales en medio de una sociedad letrada blanca.-------------------This paper deals with Jacinto Ventura Molina’s work and its ideological clues. Molina was an Afro-descendant writer and an exceptional figure in his time. He was born free in the frontier between Spanish and Portuguese Empires and lived and worked in Montevideo. His writings (not published during his life) show a vast and sometimes chaotic corpus with historical, religious, philosophical, juridical or autobiographical matters. Molina moved himself between different political contexts, devoted his writings to the apology of the Ancient Régime and he tried to demostrate his intellectual praises inside the white lettered society.