Abstract:This article illuminates the extent to which Chilean Boy Scouting has functioned not merely as a recreational program, but also as a literary project. I call this project scoutismo. Upon textual terrain, Chilean Boy Scout authors have constructed theories of gender and nationality, while Chilean boy scouts, as readers, have found themselves addressed as subjects whose masculinity and Chileanness appear to be in crisis. Through a close reading of short stories published in Chilean Boy Scout magazines from the 1910s to the early 1940s, I attend to the discursive complexity with which editors, authors, and readers have curated, produced, and consumed literature to train one another in the meanings of gender and nationality. Furthermore, I suggest that the Boy Scout magazine medium serves as the literary counterpart of a specific Scout practice: the campfire gathering, which a prominent scoutista author has described as a beautiful sharing of brief literary pieces. Not only around the flames, but also in the pages of magazines, boy scouts and their adult leaders use the short narrative genre to work out their masculinities and nationality.

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智利男童军杂志作为文学篝火：通过童军短篇小说的男子气概和国籍

摘要：本文阐明了智利童子军不仅在娱乐节目中发挥作用，而且在文学项目中发挥作用。我称这个项目为侦查兵。在文本的地形上，智利童子军的作者建立了性别和国籍理论，而智利童子军（作为读者）发现自己被认为是男性气概和智利人似乎处于危机中的对象。通过仔细阅读1910年代至1940年代初期在智利Boy Scout杂志上发表的短篇小说，我发现了编者，作者和读者策划，创作和消费文学时的话语复杂性，以相互理解性别和国籍。此外，我建议将《童子军》杂志的媒介作为一种特定的《童子军》实践的文学作品：篝火聚会，著名的童子军作者将其描述为精美的简短文学作品的共享。不仅在火焰周围，而且在杂志的页面上，童子军及其成年领袖都使用简短的叙事形式来确定其男子气概和国籍。