Description
Book SynopsisExamines how the figure of the captive and the notion of borders have been used in Argentine literature and painting to reflect competing notions of national identity from the nineteenth to the twenty-first centuries.
Trade Review“An outstanding book. The subject of the captive is deeply embedded in the Argentine imagination, and Carlos Riobó reveals its every nuance, from nineteenth-century myths of national racial purity to the re-identification of all its components during the Perón era. A book like this can only be the product of a great teacher who has labored to make his subject attractive to undergraduates. With this book Riobó has established a niche for himself: it sets a professional standard.”—Alfred Mac Adam, professor of Spanish at Barnard College, Columbia University
Table of ContentsList of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
1. A National Trope: Captivity within Argentine History
2. Crossing Borders:
Mestizaje and Frontiers
3. Ambivalent Histories: An Early Legend and a First-Person Account
4. Captives in Argentine Literature: A Mimetic Historical Record
5. Virtue-al Representations: Captives in Argentine Art
Notes
Bibliography
Index
