{"product_id":"embodying-argentina","title":"Embodying Argentina","description":"\u003cp\u003e   In 2001 Argentina faced its most serious economic crisis in years. At this turbulent time in Argentina's history, the question \"What is \u003ci\u003eargentinidad\u003c\/i\u003e?\" is more important than ever. The symbols of Argentina's national culture that are now revered came about during another time of economic and political unrest in the second half of the nineteenth century and were captured by writers who understood authorship as a political matter.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e   This book examines Argentine literary narratives from 1850 to 1880, including \u003ci\u003eAmalia\u003c\/i\u003e (1851) by Jose Marmol, \u003ci\u003eRecuerdos de provincia\u003c\/i\u003e (1850) by Domingo Faustino Sarmiento, \u003ci\u003eUna excursion a los indios ranqueles\u003c\/i\u003e (1870) by Lucio V. Mansilla and \u003ci\u003eMartin Fierro\u003c\/i\u003e (1872, 1879) by Jose Hernandez, and the changing relationship between ideas of citizenship, the body, and national space. The author argues that in each of the literary narratives she discusses, the ideas embodied by the emblematic citizen are articulated clearly in scenes in which the relationship between the gendered body and concepts of nation-space--the spaces, lands or territories where struggles over national identity are represented--comes into play. The work of Rosa Guerra and Eduarda Mansilla de Garcia, who do not have canonical status but were widely read in their time and dealt with the colonial-era myth of the \"first\" white women held captive by native Argentines, is also explored.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"McFarland \u0026 Co Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54254445920600,"sku":"9780786414574","price":36.5,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9780786414574_fbf80b63-1a51-4b4f-99c0-6b0be9b19bb7.jpg?v=1764939622","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/embodying-argentina","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}