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Author Kaminsky, Amy K., author.

Title Argentina : stories for a nation / Amy K. Kaminsky
Published Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, ©2008

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Description 1 online resource (xvii, 282 pages)
Contents Bartered butterflies -- Identity narratives; or, It takes two to tango -- Imperial anxieties -- Europe's uncanny other -- Victoria Ocampo and the Keyserling effect -- The race for national identity -- The other within -- The outlaw Jews of Buenos Aires -- Dirty war stories -- Violent exclusions -- The persistence of memory
Summary By the end of the twentieth century, Argentina?s complex identity-tango and chimichurri, Eva Perón and the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo, the Falklands and the Dirty War, Jorge Luis Borges and Maradona, economic chaos and a memory of vast wealth-has become entrenched in the consciousness of the Western world. In this wide-ranging and at times poetic new work, Amy K. Kaminsky explores Argentina?s unique national identity and the place it holds in the minds of those who live beyond its physical borders. To analyze the country?s meaning in the global imagination, Kaminsky probes Argentina?s presen
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-273) and index
Notes Print version record
Subject TRAVEL -- Special Interest -- Literary.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Ethnic Studies -- General.
Literature
Motion pictures
Public opinion
SUBJECT Argentina -- In literature
Argentina -- In motion pictures. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh94001570
Argentina -- Foreign public opinion
Subject Argentina
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780816656554
081665655X