Literary Reimaginings of Argentina's Independence : History, Fiction, Politics.
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Format: | eBook |
Language: | English |
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Liverpool :
Liverpool University Press,
2022.
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Edition: | 1st ed. |
Series: | Liverpool Latin American Studies
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Online Access: | Click to View |
Table of Contents:
- Cover
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: Writing and Rewriting Independence
- Reading Latin American Historical Fiction
- Writing Independence, Envisaging the Nation
- Rewriting Independence: Texts and Contexts
- 1. Revolution and Democracy: Martín Caparrós's Ansay ó los infortunios de la gloria and Andrés Rivera's La revolución es un sueño eterno
- Revolution: Victory, Death, and Critique
- Ansay ó los infortunios de la gloria: The Violence of the Absolute
- La revolución es un sueño eterno: From the Ideal to the Real
- Conclusion: Defining the Political
- 2 Fragmenting the Nation: Martín Kohan's El informe: San Martín y el otro cruce de los Andes and Osvaldo Soriano's El ojo de la patria
- Malvinas, Militarism, and Democracy: Questioning the Patria
- El informe: San Martín y el otro cruce de los Andes: Myth and Military Epic
- El ojo de la patria: Epistemology and 'Postnational' Dystopia
- Conclusion: Values Lost and Refounded
- 3 Peronism and the Popular: Washington Cucurto's 1810: la Revolución de Mayo vivida por los negros and Manuel Santos Iñurrieta's Mariano Moreno y un teatro de operaciones
- History, Peronism, the Popular
- 1810: la Revolución de Mayo vivida por los negros: Carnival and 'Contamination'
- Mariano Moreno y un teatro de operaciones: Democracy and Revolution
- Conclusion: Owning the Past
- Conclusion: Fiction and the Political Uses of History
- Bibliography
- Index.