Provincias Un-Idas: un itinerario conceptual en el presente/ Laura Demaría.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Demaría, Laura, author.

Language:

Spanish

Subjects (All):

Argentine provinces--History.

Argentine provinces.

Regionalism--Argentina.

Regionalism.

Nationalism--Argentina.

Nationalism.

Concepts--Philosophy.

Concepts.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Place of publication not identified : Latin American Studies Association, 2025.

Summary:

"That thing that the philosophies of Argentine history call 'The Interior', and that they represent as a kind of amorphous, obscure global entity, opposed to the other clear, formal and specific entity – Buenos Aires – in a certain well-known dialectic of national existence." If "interior" were changed to "province", the phrase by Bernardo Canal Feijóo in De la estructura mediterránea argentina (1948) could perfectly serve as an epigraph to this book by Laura Demaría. In fact, she herself dedicated an illuminating chapter to Canal in her previous book, Buenos Aires and the Provinces (2014). But if in that book it was concerned with dismantling that "well-known dialectic", the proposal of Provincias Unidas is now to focus on the pole of "the provincial" in order to dismantle and reconfigure it in the thousand planes of artistic and intellectual creation that present a new geography of culture, not only for Argentina, but with decisive incursions into Chile and Colombia. From the province, this dynamic is usually responded to with two attitudes: to buckle in the localist loyalty to a tradition, or to exercise the peripheral advantage of appropriating all traditions (the well-known move by Borges, which shows in passing that, with the map on another scale, Buenos Aires is also a province). Relying on contemporary examples of art and literature that overcome all regionalist stereotypes, Laura Demaría proposes a different and original answer: a theoretical program of general destructuring of the place assigned to the province, replaced in the plural by "asymmetrical, heterogeneous, multiple places", to the point of typographically including the break in the script of the title. One might think that this implacable dynamic does not vanish by an act of theoretical will, but that only qualifies the challenge, which this book faces with contagious confidence.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages) and index.

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ISBN:

1-951634-55-1

9781951634551