Overview
- Translation of a seminal book that studies, within the Argentine literary corpus, the impact that the European Orientalist discourse had on the birth of the nation
- Renews the standards of academic studies about the links between Latin America and the cultures of the Muslim and Asian East
- Sets up a new standard of analysis that may be useful for other national case studies in Latin America in their historical and cultural complex relations with the East
Part of the book series: Historical and Cultural Interconnections between Latin America and Asia (HCILAA)
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Introduction
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The East in the Pampas
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Eastern Prints from Globetrotters, Tourists and Positivists
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Mirages of the East
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Building Up a Literary and Cultural History of Argentinian Orientalism
Keywords
- European orientalism
- Argentinean literature
- Argentinean literary tradition
- Argentinean cultural history
- Latin American barbarism
- the Eastern question
- avant garde literature
- Esteban Echeverría
- Juan Bautista Alberdi
- Domingo F. Sarmiento
- Lucio V. Mansilla
- Pastor Obligado
- Leopoldo Lugones
- Max Rohde
- Roberto Arlt
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Argentinean Literary Orientalism
Book Subtitle: From Esteban Echeverría to Roberto Arlt
Authors: Axel Gasquet
Translated by: José I. Suárez
Series Title: Historical and Cultural Interconnections between Latin America and Asia
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-54466-9
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-54465-2Published: 25 November 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-54468-3Published: 25 November 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-54466-9Published: 24 November 2020
Series ISSN: 2946-4277
Series E-ISSN: 2946-4285
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 304
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Latin American Culture, Latin American/Caribbean Literature, Latin American History, Asian Literature