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 1. Why Nation and Narration? 
 Difference between Nation and ...  
 "Imagined Communities" (Benedi...  
 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 
2. Overview of texts for this topic
Independence 1810s & 1820s (1898 for Cuba & Puerto Rico) Independence texts Slave emancipation text 20th C texts
Independence 1810s & 1820s (1898 for Cuba & Puerto Rico)
Independence texts
  • El matadero (Esteban Echeverría - 1871 [1841])
  • Facundo (Domingo Faustino Sarmiento - 1845)
Slave emancipation text
  • Sab (Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda - 1841)
20th C texts
  • Spanish-American War 1898
  • Ariel (José Enrique Rodó, 1900)
  • Calibán (Roberto Fernández Retamar, 1971)
  • El laberinto de la soledad (Octavio Paz, 1959)
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