Argentinean Literary Orientalism

From Esteban Echeverría to Roberto Arlt
1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-3-030-54468-3
Verlag: Springer International Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 304 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 210 mm, Gewicht: 416 g

Reihe: Historical and Cultural Interconnections between Latin America and Asia

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.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gasquet, Axel

Weitere Mitwirkende

Suárez, José I.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Stoffe, Motive und Themen
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Romanische Literaturen Lateinamerikanische Literaturen, Spanische Literatur außerhalb Europas
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1 Introduction.- 2 European Archetypes and the Debate about the Eastern Question.- Part I: The East in the Pampa.- 3 The Romantic import of Esteban Echeverría and Juan B. Alberdi.- 4: The Ideological Oriental Translation of Domingo F. Sarmiento.- Part II: Eastern Stamps of Cosmopolites, Tourists and Positivists.- 5 The Worldly Splendor of Lucio V. Mansilla.- 6 The Measured Enlightenment of Pastor S. Obligado.- 7 The Hygienist Modernity of Eduardo F. Wilde.- Part III: Mirrors of the East.- 8 Arabesques and Chinerías: the Imaginary of Leopoldo Lugones.- 9 The Aestheticizing Traditionalism of Jorge Max Rohde.- 10 Roberto Arlt’s Moorish and African Fiction.- 11 General Conclusion.

Über Autor(innen)

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).