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Embodying Argentina

By Nancy Hanway

Embodying Argentina

By Nancy Hanway

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In 2001 Argentina faced its most serious economic crisis in years. At this turbulent time in Argentina's history, the question "What is argentinidad?" is more important than ever. The symbols of Argentina's national culture that are now revered came about during another time of economic and political unrest in the second half of the nineteenth century and were captured by writers who understood authorship as a political matter. This book examines Argentine literary narratives from 1850 to 1880, including Amalia (1851) by Jose Marmol, Recuerdos de provincia (1850) by Domingo Faustino Sarmiento, Una excursion a los indios ranqueles (1870) by Lucio V. Mansilla and Martin Fierro (1872, 1879) by Jose Hernandez, and the changing relationship between ideas of citizenship, the body, and national space. The author argues that in each of the literary narratives she discusses, the ideas embodied by the emblematic citizen are articulated clearly in scenes in which the relationship between the gendered body and concepts of nation-space--the spaces, lands or territories where struggles over national identity are represented--comes into play. The work of Rosa Guerra and Eduarda Mansilla de Garcia, who do not have canonical status but were widely read in their time and dealt with the colonial-era myth of the "first" white women held captive by native Argentines, is also explored.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
illustrated
Number of Pages:
194
Release Date:
2003-05-01
Publication Date:
2003-05-20
Publisher:
McFarland and Company, Inc.
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
078641457X
ISBN13:
9780786414574
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Minimum Reading Age:
18
Weight:
290 g
Height:
152 cm
Width:
229 cm
Thickness:
11 cm
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