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How various readings of a classic 1845 essay have contributed to the making and remaking of the Argentine nation and its culture.

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

Facundo and the Construction of Argentine Culture

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      Publisher: University of Texas Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 01/11/1996
      ISBN13: 9780292727908, 978-0292727908
      ISBN10: 0292727909

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      How various readings of a classic 1845 essay have contributed to the making and remaking of the Argentine nation and its culture.

      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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