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 1. Why Nation and Narration? 
 Difference between Nation and ...  
 "Imagined Communities" - Bened...  
 Homi Bhabha (ed.) Nation and N...  
 Foundational fictions (Doris S...  
 2. Overview of texts for this top...  
 Independence 1810s & 1820s (18...  
 Independence texts 
 Slave emancipation text 
 20th C texts 
 3. Historical Context: Argentina 
 See David Rock, Argentina 1516...  
 16th & 17th C - River Plate te...  
 18th Century 
 19th Century 
 4. Civilización v. barbarie 
 Generation of 1837 
 Binary oppositions (black-and-...  
 5. El matadero 
 Slaughterhouse as allegory of ...  
 The ambivalence of History 
 Hybridity of genre 
 Unstable allegory 
Nation & Narration 1: Context, Concepts and El matadero
Why Nation and Narration? Overview of texts for this topic Historical Context: Argentina Civilización v. barbarie El matadero
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