Literary Reimaginings of Argentina’s Independence
As the moment of the birth of the patria, Independence enjoys a privileged role in the historical imaginary of many Latin American nations. In Argentina as in other countries, the period has been fundamental to state discourses of nation-building and identity, lending its figures and central narrati...
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| description | As the moment of the birth of the patria, Independence enjoys a privileged role in the historical imaginary of many Latin American nations. In Argentina as in other countries, the period has been fundamental to state discourses of nation-building and identity, lending its figures and central narratives a powerful symbolic function. It has also attracted significant literary attention, and this book offers an innovative reading of texts that provide irreverent, metafictional, or self-reflexive retellings of this foundational moment. This type of fiction is usually read through well-established frameworks on the contemporary Latin American historical novel that emphasise its destabilising of knowledge and single truths. Instead, this work foregrounds the much more immediate, concrete political points at stake when we read these texts through both their direct engagement with contemporary circumstances and the politics of the history they evoke. It therefore argues for a new approach to reading contemporary Latin American historical fiction that showcases its response to politically urgent questions. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-792932025-07-30T11:55:03Z Literary Reimaginings of Argentina’s Independence McAllister, Catriona Latin American literature;historical fiction;Argentinian independence;Latin American independence;Argentina thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DS Literature: history and criticism::DSB Literary studies: general thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DS Literature: history and criticism::DSB Literary studies: general As the moment of the birth of the patria, Independence enjoys a privileged role in the historical imaginary of many Latin American nations. In Argentina as in other countries, the period has been fundamental to state discourses of nation-building and identity, lending its figures and central narratives a powerful symbolic function. It has also attracted significant literary attention, and this book offers an innovative reading of texts that provide irreverent, metafictional, or self-reflexive retellings of this foundational moment. This type of fiction is usually read through well-established frameworks on the contemporary Latin American historical novel that emphasise its destabilising of knowledge and single truths. Instead, this work foregrounds the much more immediate, concrete political points at stake when we read these texts through both their direct engagement with contemporary circumstances and the politics of the history they evoke. It therefore argues for a new approach to reading contemporary Latin American historical fiction that showcases its response to politically urgent questions. 2022-03-12T04:00:56Z 2022-03-12T04:00:56Z 2022-03-11T10:54:56Z 2022 book OCN: 1292533783 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/53264 9781800348455 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/79293 eng open access image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/53264/1/McAllister_9781800345515_web.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/53264/1/McAllister_9781800345515_web.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/53264/1/McAllister_9781800345515_web.pdf Liverpool University Press aa5f0a3b-b4a0-4754-9840-b645b364c5ef University of Reading fb471c48-61d1-40b5-a8d7-7abd9278f351 9781800348455 Liverpool open access |
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