Simon Bolivar
Subtitle: Travels and Transformations of a Cultural Icon
Publisher: University Press of Florida
Published: Jul 26, 2016
Language: eng
Format: hardcover
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780813062624
Description: "One of Latin America's most famous historical figures, Simón Bolívar has become a mythic symbol for many nations, empires, and revolutions used to support wildly diverse--sometimes opposite--ideas. From colonial Cuba to Nazi-occupied France to Cold War-era Slovenia, the image of "El Libertador" has variously signified loyalty, national unity, liberation, freedom, and revolt. In this volume, an array of international and interdisciplinary scholars shows the ways Bolívar has appeared over the last two centuries in painting, fiction, poetry, music, film, festival, dance, city planning, and even reliquary adoration. They illustrate how Simón Bolívar's body has been exalted, reimagined, or fragmented in different contexts, taking on a range of meanings to represent the politics and poetrics of today's national bodies "--Page [4] of cover.
Notes: Source title: Simon Bolivar: Travels and Transformations of a Cultural Icon