The end of the world as they knew it : writing experiences of the Argentine South /

""The End of the World as They Knew It" maps the shifting constructions of the space of the South in Argentine discourses of identity, nation, and self-fashioning. In works by Domingo F. Sarmiento, Lucio V. Mansilla, Francisco P. Moreno, Jorge Luis Borges, Ricardo Piglia, and Cesar Ai...

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Autor principal: Jagoe, Eva-Lynn Alicia, 1968-
Formato: Libro
Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: Lewisburg [PA] : Bucknell University Press, c2008.
Colección:Bucknell studies in Latin American literature and theory
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  • "Paredón y después" : the construction of the south in Argentine discourse
  • The pace of barbarism : Francis Bond Head's and Domingo Sarmiento's representations of the Pampas
  • Dreams, digressions, and duties : Lucio V. Mansilla's Una excursión a los indios ranqueles
  • Mapping time in Argentina : Perito Moreno and Charles Darwin
  • Criollo legacies : twentieth-century appropriations of Hudson in Borges, Martínez Estrada, and Piglia
  • The nineteenth-century South in the postdictatorial present.