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Cossacks and Gauchos Myths of Masculinity in the Political Struggles of the River Plate and Ukraine, 1830S Through 1840S Cossacks and gauchos Myths of masculinity in the political struggles of the River Plate and Ukraine, 1830s through 1840s Tomasz Hen-Konarski Thesis submitted for assessment with a view to obtaining the degree of Doctor of History and Civilization of the European University Institute Florence, 21 March 2017 European University Institute Department of History and Civilization Cossacks and gauchos Myths of masculinity in the political struggles of the River Plate and Ukraine, 1830s through 1840s Tomasz Hen-Konarski Thesis submitted for assessment with a view to obtaining the degree of Doctor of History and Civilization of the European University Institute Examining Board Lucy Riall, EUI (Supervisor) Pieter Judson, EUI Nicola Miller, UCL Larry Wolff, NYU © Tomasz Hen-Konarski, 2017 No part of this thesis may be copied, reproduced or transmitted without prior permission of the author Researcher declaration to accompany the submission of written work Department of History and Civilization - Doctoral Programme I Tomasz Hen-Konarski certify that I am the author of the work Cossacks and gauchos: Myths of masculinity in the political struggles of the River Plate and Ukraine, 1830s through 1840s I have presented for examination for the Ph.D. at the European University Institute. I also certify that this is solely my own original work, other than where I have clearly indicated, in this declaration and in the thesis, that it is the work of others. I warrant that I have obtained all the permissions required for using any material from other copyrighted publications. I certify that this work complies with the Code of Ethics in Academic Research issued by the European University Institute (IUE 332/2/10 (CA 297). The copyright of this work rests with its author. Quotation from it is permitted, provided that full acknowledgement is made. This work may not be reproduced without my prior written consent. This authorisation does not, to the best of my knowledge, infringe the rights of any third party. I declare that this work consists of 160,570 words. Statement of language correction: This thesis has been corrected for linguistic and stylistic errors. I certify that I have checked and approved all language corrections, and that these have not affected the content of this work. Signature and date: Summary ................................................................................................................................... 7 Acknowledgements ................................................................................................................... 9 List of Illustrations ................................................................................................................. 11 Note on conventions ............................................................................................................... 13 1. Introduction ........................................................................................................................ 17 2. The emergence of Cossacks and gauchos as symbol and myth ...................................... 35 3. Luis Pérez and his gaucho journalism in verse ............................................................... 63 4. Nikolai Gogol′ and his Cossack fantasy ......................................................................... 119 5. Domingo Faustino Sarmiento and his gauchos .............................................................. 189 6. Michał Czajkowski and his Cossack Utopias ................................................................ 223 7. The Democrats and their Cossacks in Vormärz Galicia ................................................ 285 8. Conclusions: The Knights of the Dandelion .................................................................. 349 9. Bibliography ..................................................................................................................... 359 Summary In my dissertation I study the ways in which the literary figures of free males on horseback, the Cossacks and the gauchos, were endowed with political meanings in the River Plate and Ukraine of the 1830s and 1840s. My study is located within the field of history of political culture with special attention paid to ideology, its symbolical representations and the ways in which they formed part of broader mythologies. The two cases are not studied for their own sake, but as examples of complex ideological tensions caused by the expansion of state and the transformation of bourgeois society. What brings their stories together is their having a common point of reference in the late Enlightenment/Romantic fantasy of ‘non- modernity’ of which the anarchic frontier horseman is just one symbol. The overarching question that I address is how several different actors in their contingent environments employed these symbols to construct the male subject of modern politics (modernity being understood here as a disciplinary myth and a claim-making concept, rather than a tangible historical condition). I offer contextualized interpretations of several texts: verse journals directed at uneducated subalterns of Buenos Aires at the beginning of 1830s; a historical novel by Nikolai Gogol ′; a celebrated biographical essay by Domingo F. Sarmiento; pulp novels, secret reports, memoirs and propaganda dossiers of Michał Czajkowski, a Polish-Lithuanian politician and military commander based in Istanbul; Polish- and Ukrainian-language writings of several minor authors from Austrian Galicia. I show that the Cossack/gaucho myths are just two examples of dream about the free life beyond the limitations imposed by the state and society. In fact, that dream was present in many other environments and took many different guises, US cowboys being just one obvious, though chronologically later, example. Such longings were inextricably linked to the global ‘structured transformations’ interpreted by the historical actors as the rise of ‘modernity,’ though clearly the figure of anarchic frontier horseman was not the only conceptual tool used to cope with them. What made the Cossack/gaucho myths so successful was that they were a very specific antithesis of ‘modernity,’ one that combined 1) the rejection of state and family; 2) the claim to be truly native; 3) and the promise of liberating the repressed masculine instincts. Key words: nineteenth century, masculinity, modernity, subjectivity, journalism, literature, liberalism, democracy, revolution, Cossacks, gauchos, Argentina, Poland, Russia, Ukraine 7 8 Acknowledgements The idea to compare the Cossacks and gauchos first occurred to me in 2009, when I was preparing my presentation for the Graduate Training School “Comparing Empires,” convened by the COST Network Tributary Empires Compared (A36) in Rome. Here, the main merit goes to two persons: my MA supervisor Dariusz Kołodziełczyk, who invited me to participate in that event and my friend Paulina Ście żka, a student of linguistics, who was the first to introduce me to the writings of Domingo F. Sarmiento. Another participant of that workshop in Rome was Mateusz Falkowski who helped me in many different ways and is a constant presence in my academic life. The meaning which I give to the Cossack-gaucho comparison in this dissertation is completely different from what I presented eight years ago, but that training school was the beginning of this intellectual experiment. Many thanks must go to my supervisor Lucy Riall and my second reader Pieter Judson. Lucy was always generous in sharing her expertise and supported me in moments of doubt. Without her advice and encouragement this text would never come into being. Pieter was much more than just a second reader, rather a co-supervisor and the most critical of interlocutors. It is not possible to do justice to his contributions in a short note of acknowledgements. Several persons read fragments of this dissertation and helped me to improve my argument: Bettina Brandt, Bettina Brockmeyer, Stéphane Van Damme, Laura Downs, Angelika Epple, Walter Erhart, Anna Grze śkowiak-Krwawicz, Maciej Janowski, Martina Kessel, Pavel Kolá ř, Joanna Pfaff-Czarnecka, Oleksandr Polianichev, Johannes Remy, Ann Thomson, Torsten Voß and several co-participants of thesis writing seminars at the EUI. I also owe valuable bibliographical suggestions to José Miguel Escribano Páez, Gabriel di Meglio, Ostap Sereda, Oleh Turii, Frank Sysyn and Ignacio Zubizarreta. I am especially indebted to Alexandra Ortolja-Baird who helped me to clarify my English and eliminate accidental rhymes (‘the horse of course’). For four months I worked on this project at the Bielefeld Graduate School in History and Sociology, which surprised me as one of the nicest and most stimulating academic milieus which I have encountered in my life. Many other people and institutions should be named here, but I would not like to make this note of acknowledgements too long. I will close it here thanking my wife, my mother and my grandmother. 9 10 List of Illustrations 1. Honoré Daumier, Manière d’entrainer les Cosaques , Le Charivari , April 4 1854, source: Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, also available at http://bir.brandeis.edu/bitstream/handle/10192/2869/LD2479.jpg?sequence=1&isAllowed=y (retrieved 07.10.2016) 2. Front page of the first issue of Luis Pérez’s El Gaucho , source: El Gaucho , No. 1, [1], also available at http://trapalanda.bn.gov.ar/jspui/handle/123456789/11282 (retrieved 31.10.2016) 3. Front page of El Gaucho , source: El Gaucho , No. 26, [1], also available at http://trapalanda.bn.gov.ar/jspui/handle/123456789/11299
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