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Argentina
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 presence in a broad range of literary texts from the United States, Poland, England, Western Europe, and ...
Argentine Short Stories
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Commentary (stories not included). Pages: 37. Chapters: Short stories by Jorge Luis Borges, Short stories by Julio Cortazar, Short story collections by Jorge Luis Borges, Short story collections by Julio Cortazar, Tlon, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius, The Library of Babel, The Garden of Forking Paths, Funes the Memorious, Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote, The Book of Sand, The Aleph, The Approach to Al-Mu'tasim, Blue Tigers, The South, The Congress, Ficciones, There Are More Things, A Universal History of Infamy, The Theologians, Shakespeare's Memory, The Immortal, Death ...
Women and Power in Argentine Literature
The astonishing talent of Argentine women writers belies the struggles they have faced—not merely as overlooked authors, but as women of conviction facing oppression. The patriarchal pressures of the Perón years, the terror of the Dirty War, and, more recently, the economic collapse that gripped the nation in 2001 created such repressive conditions that some writers, such as Luisa Valenzuela, left the country for long periods. Not surprisingly, power has become an inescapable theme in Argentine women's fiction, and this collection shows how the dynamics of power capture not only the political world but also the personal one. Whether their characters are politicians and peasants, torturers...
