Argentina : stories for a nation /
By the end of the twentieth century, Argentina?s complex identity-tango and chimichurri, Eva Perón and the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo, the Falklands and the Dirty War, Jorge Luis Borges and Maradona, economic chaos and a memory of vast wealth-has become entrenched in the consciousness of the West...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Minneapolis :
University of Minnesota Press,
©2008.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Sumario: | By the end of the twentieth century, Argentina?s complex identity-tango and chimichurri, Eva Perón and the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo, the Falklands and the Dirty War, Jorge Luis Borges and Maradona, economic chaos and a memory of vast wealth-has become entrenched in the consciousness of the Western world. In this wide-ranging and at times poetic new work, Amy K. Kaminsky explores Argentina?s unique national identity and the place it holds in the minds of those who live beyond its physical borders. To analyze the country?s meaning in the global imagination, Kaminsky probes Argentina?s presen. |
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Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xvii, 282 pages) |
Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-273) and index. |
ISBN: | 9780816656554 081665655X |