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Record Nr.

UNINA9910790829103321

Autore

Lanctot Brendan

Titolo

Beyond civilization and barbarism : culture and politics in postrevolutionary Argentina / / Brendan Lanctot

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham, Maryland ; ; Plymouth, England : , : Bucknell University Press, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

1-61148-713-7

1-61148-546-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (193 p.)

Collana

Bucknell studies in Latin American literature and theory

Disciplina

982.04

Soggetti

Argentine literature - History and criticism

Literature and society - Argentina

National characteristics, Argentine, in literature

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 and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Note on Translations; Introduction; 1 Writing, Affect, and the Portraiture of Power; 2 Graffiti, Public Opinion, and the Poetics of Politics; 3 Visual Culture and the Limits of Representation; 4 The Machine in the Pampa, or Writing as Technology; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index; About the Author

Sommario/riassunto

Beyond Civilization and Barbarism examines the role of cultural production in the struggle for power in Argentina during the first half of the nineteenth century. Identifying the pueblo, or people, as the common preoccupation of those vying to legitimize competing political projects, it argues that this decisive period of Latin American history was marked by a fundamentally modern debate to define the constitutive parts of the nation.