The end of the world as they knew it : writing experiences of the Argentine South / Eva-Lynn Alicia Jagoe.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jagoe, Eva-Lynn Alicia, 1968-

Contributor:

Classes of 1883 and 1884 Fund.

Series:

Bucknell studies in Latin American literature and theory

The Bucknell studies in Latin American literature and theory

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Argentine literature--19th century--History and criticism.

Argentine literature.

Argentine literature--20th century--History and criticism.

English literature--19th century--History and criticism.

English literature.

National characteristics, Argentine, in literature.

Argentina--In literature.

Argentina.

Physical Description:

233 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Lewisburg [PA] : Bucknell University Press, [2008]

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 218-226) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Classes of 1883 and 1884 Fund.

ISBN:

9780838756973

0838756972

OCLC:

162501962