Caught Between the Lines - Captives, Frontiers, National Identity in Argentine Literature Art

Informationen zum Autor Carlos Riobó is a professor of Spanish and comparative literature at the City College of New York and the Graduate Center–CUNY. He is the author of Sub-Versions of the Archive: Manuel Puig’s and Severo Sarduy’s Alternative Identities.   Klappentext Carlos Riobó is a professor of Spanish and comparative literature¿at the City College of New York and the Graduate Center–CUNY. He is the author of Sub-Versions of the Archive: Manuel Puig’s and Severo Sarduy’s Alternative Identities. ¿ Zusammenfassung Examines how the figure of the captive and the notion of borders have been used in Argentine literature and painting to reflect competing notions of national identity from the nineteenth to the twenty-first centuries. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Illustrations Acknowledgments 1. A National Trope: Captivity within Argentine History 2. Crossing Borders: Mestizaje and Frontiers 3. Ambivalent Histories: An Early Legend and a First-Person Account 4. Captives in Argentine Literature: A Mimetic Historical Record 5. Virtue-al Representations: Captives in Argentine Art Notes Bibliography Index

Product details

• Authors: Carlos Riobo, Carlos Riobó
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.04.2019
• EAN: 9781496205520
• ISBN: 978-1-4962-0552-0
• No. of pages: 198
• Series: New Hispanisms; New Hispanisms
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Romance linguistics / literary studies; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Südamerika, Literatur: Geschichte und Kritik, Literature - Classics / Criticism, HISTORY / Latin America / South America, LITERARY CRITICISM / Caribbean & Latin American, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / Hispanic American