Literary Reimaginings of Argentina's Independence : History, Fiction, Politics.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: McAllister, Catriona.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2022.
Edition:1st ed.
Series:Liverpool Latin American Studies
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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.