The end of the world as they knew it : writing experiences of the Argentine South /

The end of the world as they knew it : writing experiences of the Argentine South /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Jagoe, Eva-Lynn Alicia, 1968-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Lewisburg [Pa.] : Bucknell University Press, [2008]
Series:Bucknell studies in Latin American literature and theory.
Subjects:
Argentine literature > 19th century > History and criticism.
Argentine literature > 20th century > History and criticism.
English literature > 19th century > History and criticism.
National characteristics, Argentine, in literature.
Argentina > In literature.
Table of Contents:
  • "Paredón y después" : the construction of the south in Argentine discourse
  • The pace of barbarism : Francis Bond Head's and Domingo Sarmiento's representations of the Pampas
  • Dreams, digressions, and duties : Lucio V. Mansilla's Una excursión a los indios ranqueles
  • Mapping time in Argentina : Perito Moreno and Charles Darwin
  • Criollo legacies : twentieth-century appropriations of Hudson in Borges, Martínez Estrada, and Piglia
  • The nineteenth-century South in the postdictatorial present.