Facundo and the construction of Argentine culture
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Facundo and the construction of Argentine culture
（The Texas Pan American series）
University of Texas Press, c1996
1st ed
- : pbk
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 195-211) and index
Description and Table of Contents
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ISBN 9780292727892
Description
Domingo F. Sarmiento's classic 1845 essay Facundo, Civilizacion y Barbarie opened an inquiry into the nature of Argentinian culture that continues to the present day. In this elegantly written study, Diana Sorensen Goodrich explores the varied, and often conflicting, readings that Facundo has received since its publication and shows how these readings have contributed to the making and remaking of the Argentine nation and its culture.Goodrich's analysis sheds new light on the intersection between canon formation and nation-building. While much has been written about Facundo as a primary text in Latin American letters, this is the first study that locates it within the problematics of canon formation and the cultural, social, and political contexts in which conflicting interpretations are constructed.
This new approach to Facundo illuminates the interactions among institutions, cultural ideologies, and political life. This book will be important reading for everyone interested in questions of national identity and the institutionalization of a national tradition.
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: pbk ISBN 9780292727908
Description
Domingo F. Sarmiento's classic 1845 essay Facundo, Civilizacion y Barbarie opened an inquiry into the nature of Argentinian culture that continues to the present day. In this elegantly written study, Diana Sorensen Goodrich explores the varied, and often conflicting, readings that Facundo has received since its publication and shows how these readings have contributed to the making and remaking of the Argentine nation and its culture.
Goodrich's analysis sheds new light on the intersection between canon formation and nation-building. While much has been written about Facundo as a primary text in Latin American letters, this is the first study that locates it within the problematics of canon formation and the cultural, social, and political contexts in which conflicting interpretations are constructed.
This new approach to Facundo illuminates the interactions among institutions, cultural ideologies, and political life. This book will be important reading for everyone interested in questions of national identity and the institutionalization of a national tradition.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
One. The Wars Of Persuasion: Conflict, Interpretation, and Power in the Early Years of Facundo's Reception
Two. The Risks Of Fiction: Facundo and the Parameters of Historical Writing
Three. The Wiles Of Disputation: Alberdi Reads Facundo
Four. Facundo's Travels To The Metropolitan Centers
Five. The Nation Consolidated: The 1880's and the Canonization of Facundo
Six. A Classic Corrected: Rewriting the National Myths
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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