The end of the world as they knew it
Subtitle: writing experiences of the Argentine South
By: Eva-Lynn Alicia Jagoe.
Series: The Bucknell studies in Latin American literature and theory
Publisher: Bucknell University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Lewisburg [PA]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 233
ISBN-13: 9780838756973
Subjects: Argentine literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism; Argentine literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism; English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism; National characteristics, Argentine, in literature; Argentina -- In literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 218-226) and index.
Table of contents: title: "Paredón y después" : the construction of the south in Argentine discourse; title: The pace of barbarism : Francis Bond Head's and Domingo Sarmiento's representations of the Pampas; title: Dreams, digressions, and duties : Lucio V. Mansilla's Una excursión a los indios ranqueles; title: Mapping time in Argentina : Perito Moreno and Charles Darwin; title: Criollo legacies : twentieth-century appropriations of Hudson in Borges, Martínez Estrada, and Piglia; title: The nineteenth-century South in the postdictatorial present.