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Literary Reimaginings of Argentina's Independence: History, Fiction, Politics

Literary Reimaginings of Argentina's Independence: History, Fiction, Politics

McAllister, Catriona

Paperback

Series: Liverpool Latin American Studies, Book 23

Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 1800348452
ISBN13: 9781800348455
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Published: Jan 5 2022
Pages: 160
Weight: 0.51
Height: 0.34 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

An Open Access edition of this book is available on the Liverpool University Press website and the OAPEN library.

As the moment of the birth of the patria, Independence enjoys a privileged role in the historical imaginary of many Latin American nations. In Argentina as in other countries, the period has been fundamental to state discourses of nation-building and identity, lending its figures and central narratives a powerful symbolic function. It has also attracted significant literary attention, and this book offers an innovative reading of texts that provide irreverent, metafictional, or self-reflexive retellings of this foundational moment. This type of fiction is usually read through well-established frameworks on the contemporary Latin American historical novel that emphasise its destabilising of knowledge and single truths. Instead, this work foregrounds the much more immediate, concrete political points at stake when we read these texts through both their direct engagement with contemporary circumstances and the politics of the history they evoke. It therefore argues for a new approach to reading contemporary Latin American historical fiction that showcases its response to politically urgent questions.

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