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Argentinean Literary Orientalism

From Esteban Echeverría to Roberto Arlt

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Authors:
  1. Axel Gasquet

    1. Department of Spanish Studies, University of Clermont Auvergne, Clermont-Ferrand, France

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  • 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

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiv
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  2. Introduction

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Which East by Way of the South?

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      Pages 3-11

    3. The European Archetype and the Debate on the Eastern Question

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      Pages 13-37

  3. The East in the Pampas

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      Pages 39-39
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    2. The Romantic Importation of Esteban Echeverría and Juan Bautista Alberdi

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      Pages 41-68

    3. An Ideological Reading of Domingo Faustino Sarmiento

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      Pages 69-96

  4. Eastern Prints from Globetrotters, Tourists and Positivists

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      Pages 97-97
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    2. The Worldly Splendor of Lucio Victorio Mansilla

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      Pages 99-131

    3. The Judicious Enlightenment of Pastor Servando Obligado

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      Pages 133-164

    4. The Hygienist Modernity of Eduardo Faustino Wilde

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      Pages 165-201

  5. Mirages of the East

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      Pages 203-203
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    2. Arabesques and Chinoiseries in the Imagination of Leopoldo Lugones

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      Pages 205-235

    3. The Moorish African Fiction of Roberto Arlt

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      Pages 237-259

  6. Building Up a Literary and Cultural History of Argentinian Orientalism

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      Pages 261-261
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    2. General Conclusion

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      Pages 263-272

  7. Back Matter

    Pages 273-304
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About this book

This book examines the modes of representation of the East in Argentinean literature since the country’s independence, in works by canonical authors such as Esteban Echeverría, Juan B. Alberdi, Domingo F. Sarmiento, Lucio V. Mansilla, Pastor S. Obligado, Eduardo F. Wilde, Leopoldo Lugones, and Roberto Arlt. The East, which has always fascinated intellectuals and artists from the Americas, inspired the creation of imaginary elements for both aesthetic and political purposes, from the depiction of purportedly despotic rulers to a genuine admiration for Eastern history and millennial cultures. These writers appropriated the East either through their travels or by reading chronicles, integrating along the way images that would end up being universalized by the Argentinean dichotomy between civilization and barbarism, all the while assigning the negative stereotypes of the exotic East to the Pampa region. With time, the exoticism of the Eastern world would shed its geopolitical meaningand was ultimately integrated into the national literature, thus adding new elements into the Argentinean imaginary.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Department of Spanish Studies, University of Clermont Auvergne, Clermont-Ferrand, France

    Axel Gasquet

About the author

Axel Gasquet is Professor of Latin American Studies at the University Clermont Auvergne, France, and principal researcher at IHRIM of French National Council for Scientific Research (CNRS). He has published twelve monographs, including La cultura extraterritorial argentina (2020) and El llamado de Oriente (2015), coedited eleven essay collections and edited five critical editions, including Cultural and Literary Dialogues between Asia and Latin America (2020) and José Rizal’s Noli me tangere (2019).

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