Argentina [[electronic resource] ] : stories for a nation / / Amy K. Kaminsky

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910454494103321
• Autore: Kaminsky Amy K
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c2008
• ISBN: 0-8166-5655-X
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (302 p.)
• Disciplina: 809.9335882; 860.9982
• Soggetti: Mass media and public opinion; Electronic books.; Argentina In literature; Argentina In motion pictures; Argentina Foreign public opinion
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 261-273) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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