期刊全称 | Argentinean Literary Orientalism | 期刊简称 | From Esteban Echever | 影响因子2023 | Axel Gasquet | 视频video | | 发行地址 | 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 stu | 学科分类 | Historical and Cultural Interconnections between Latin America and Asia | 图书封面 |  | 影响因子 | 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.. | Pindex | Book 2020 |
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