02687nam 2200601Ia 450 991045449410332120200520144314.00-8166-5655-X(CKB)1000000000721628(EBL)433185(OCoLC)310982361(SSID)ssj0000105442(PQKBManifestationID)11127691(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000105442(PQKBWorkID)10101875(PQKB)10190681(MiAaPQ)EBC433185(MdBmJHUP)muse38802(Au-PeEL)EBL433185(CaPaEBR)ebr10274272(CaONFJC)MIL523016(EXLCZ)99100000000072162820080318d2008 ub 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrArgentina[electronic resource] stories for a nation /Amy K. KaminskyMinneapolis University of Minnesota Pressc20081 online resource (302 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-8166-4949-9 0-8166-4948-0 Includes bibliographical references (p. 261-273) and index.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.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 presenMass media and public opinionArgentinaIn literatureArgentinaIn motion picturesArgentinaForeign public opinionElectronic books.Mass media and public opinion.809.9335882860.9982Kaminsky Amy K893994MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910454494103321Argentina1997058UNINA