A History of Argentine Literature

Acknowledgments; Introduction Alejandra Laera and Mónica Szurmuk; Part I. Literary Dates: 1. 1536: The creation of a literary space Loreley El Jaber; 2. 1810: Patriotic voices Ezequiel Adamovsky; 3. 1837: The foundation of a national literature Víctor Goldgel-Carballo; 4. 1884: A literary field in formation Vanesa Miseres; 5. 1910: A modern lettered City Fernando Degiovanni; 6. 1926: Traditions old and new Patricio Fontana; 7. 1948: Culture and the State Marcos Zangrandi; 8. 1963: Experimentation and the common reader Gonzalo Aguilar; 9. 1980: Memory and the Novel Fernando Rosenberg; 10. 2001: Argentine narrative in the New Millennium Jordana Blejmar and Ben Bollig; Part II. Critical Inroads: 11. Print culture in the Nineteenth Century Claudia Roman; 12. Criollismo: Gauchos in literature and Film Nicolás Suárez; 13. Race and nation Chisu Teresa Ko; 14. Science in argentine literature Joanna Page; 15. Essay on Territory: The Geography of National identity Adrián Gorelik; 16. Music as sonic literature Esteban Buch; 17. The Jewish presence in argentine literature Mónica Szurmuk; 18. Emancipating: Twentieth-Century female writers, Journalists, and activists Nora Domínguez and Lucía De Leone; 19. Dislocating tradition: Liminal, oblique and displaced writings Mariano Siskind; 20. Mujeres raras: Patriarchal nightmares, dissident imagination Gabriel Giorgi; Part III. Literary Names: 21. Sarmiento: Politics, culture, and spectacle Alejandra Laera; 22. The Mansilla siblings: A story in syntony Claudia Torre; 23. Martín Fierro: Subaltern voices Juan Pablo Dabove; 24. Borges and argentine literature: A detour around the World Graciela Montaldo; 25. Roberto arlt Sylvia Saítta; 26. The Ocampo sisters Laura Arnés and Julia Kratje; 27. AlfoScenesnsina Storni, Alejandra Pizarnik Gwen Kirkpatrick; 28. Displacement and transfer in Julio Cortázar's Todos los fuegos el fuego Amanda Holmes; 29. Manuel Puig's circuit bending: Literary listening against Surveillance Tom McEnaney; 30. Operation Massacre: Dangerous journalism Martín Kohan; 31. The politics of the poem: From Gelman to perlongher Edgardo Dobry; 32. Scenes from postmodern life: Literary interventions in the public sphere Silvio Waisbord; 33. Griselda Gambaro and beyond: a 'Dermography' of contemporary Women's theatre and performance Cecilia Sosa, Brenda Werth and Philippa Page; 34. César Aira and the art of invention Sandra Contreras.