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Title The Argentina Reader : History, Culture, Politics
Published Duke University Press Books 2009

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Contents Cover13; -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- General Introduction -- I. At the Margins of the Empire -- The Deeds of Elal. Anonymous -- Going Wild. Ulderico Schmidt -- Monsters in Patagonia. Antonio Pigafetta -- Women Captives. Ruy D237;az de Guzm225;n -- The Jesuit Mission. Father Strobel -- A Gaucho Sings the Victories of the Empire. Juan Baltasar Maciel -- The First British Invasion. Mariquita S225;nchez de Thompson -- II. To Build a Nation -- The Revolution. Tulio Halper237;n Donghi -- The Landowners Petition. Mariano Moreno -- The Good Citizen. Jos233; de San Mart237;n -- Women in the Fatherland. Juana Manuela Gorriti. -- The Caudillos Order. Juan Manuel de Rosas. -- Civilization or Barbarism? Domingo Faustino Sarmiento -- Rosas and Washington. Pedro de Angelis -- The Black Girl. Anonymous -- Immigration as a Means of Progress. Juan Bautista Alberdi -- III. Frontiers -- The Slaughterhouse. Esteban Echeverr237;a -- Wars of Extermination. Charles Darwin -- The Triple Alliance. Captain Francisco Seeber -- One Hundred Leagues of Trench. Alfred Eb233;lot -- Gauchos in and out of the State. Jos233; Hern225;ndez -- An Expedition to the Ranquel Indians. Lucio V. Mansilla -- Letter to the President. Chief Manuel Namuncur225; -- IV. Splendor and Fin de Si232;cle -- The Foundation of the National State. David Vi241;as -- The Paris of South America. James Scobie -- The Modern Crowd. Jos233; Mar237;a Ramos Mej237;a -- Making It in America. Oreste Sola -- The Jewish Gauchos. Alberto Gerchunoff -- The Birth of Tango. Simon Collier -- Bourgeois Snakes. Jos233; Ingenieros -- Argentina as Latin American Avant-Garde. Rub233;n Dar237;o -- National Identity in a Cosmopolitan Society. Leopoldo Lugones -- V. Modern Times -- Simn Radowitzky. Osvaldo Bayer -- The Unin C237;vica Radical. David Rock -- Poems to Be Read on a Trolley Car. Oliverio Girondo -- Modern Women. Alfonsina Storni -- X-Ray of the Pampa. Ezequiel Mart237;nez Estrada -- Soccer and Popular Joy. Roberto Arlt -- Cambalache. Enrique Santos Disc233;polo -- VI. Populism and New Nationalism -- Pern and the People. Daniel James -- Saint Evita. Tom225;s Eloy Mart237;nez -- Ramonas Revenge. Lino Palacio -- Funes, the Memorious. Jorge Luis Borges -- Victorian Fathers. Victoria Ocampo -- The Foreign Gaze. Witold Gombrowicz -- Village on the River. Juan L. Ortiz -- House Taken Over. Julio Cort225;zar -- Operation Massacre. Rodolfo Walsh -- VII. Revolutionary Dreams -- The Latin American Revolution according to 8216;8216;Che. Ernesto 8216;8216;Che Guevara -- Are We All Neurotic? Anonymous -- Tucum225;n Is Burning. Mar237;a Teresa Gramuglio and Nicol225;s Rosa -- The Cordobazo. Agust237;n Tosco -- The Words of Silence. Alejandra Pizarnik -- The Muleteer. Atahualpa Yupanqui -- Montoneros: Soldiers of Pern. Richard Gillespie -- Antirevolutionary Peronism. Juan Domingo Pern -- VIII. State Violence -- Modernization and Military Coups. Guillermo ODonnell -- Artificial Respiration. Ricardo Piglia -- The Madwomen at the Plaza de Mayo. Hebe de Bonafini and Matilde S225;nchez -- Never Again. National Commission on the Disappearance of Persons -- Still Harboring. Juan Gelman -- In a State of Memory. Tununa Mercado -- Corpses. N233;stor Perlongher
Summary <DIV>An interdisciplinary anthology that includes many primary materials never before published in English.</div>
Form Electronic book
Author Nouzeilles, Gabriela.
Montaldo, Graciela.
ISBN 1283064278
9781283064279