Facundo

Author : Domingo F. Sarmiento
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 9780140436778
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Facundo written by Domingo F. Sarmiento and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1998-10-01 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ostensibly a biography of the gaucho barbarian Juan Facundo Quiroga, Facundo is also a complex, passionate work of history, sociology, and political commentary, and Latin America's most important essay of the nineteenth century. It is a study of the Argentine character, a prescription for the modernization of Latin America, and a protest against the tyranny of the government of Juan Manuel de Rosas (1835–1852). The book brings nineteenth-century Latin American history to life even as it raises questions still being debated today—questions regarding the "civilized" city versus the "barbaric" countryside, the treatment of indigenous and African populations, and the classically liberal plan of modernization. Facundo’s celebrated and frequently anthologized portraits of Quiroga and other colorful characters give readers an exhilarating sense of Argentine culture in the making. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

Author : Domingo Faustino Sarmiento
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520081598
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Facundo written by Domingo Faustino Sarmiento and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An educator and writer, Sarmiento was President of Argentina from 1868 to 1874. His Facundo is a study of the Argentine character, a prescription for the modernization of Latin America, and a protest against the tyranny of the government of Juan Manuel de Rosas (1835-1852). The book brings nineteenth-century Latin American history to life even as it raises questions still being debated today--questions regarding the "civilized" city versus the "barbaric" countryside, the treatment of indigenous and African populations, and the classically liberal plan of modernization.

Author : Ariel de la Fuente
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 0822380196
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Children of Facundo written by Ariel de la Fuente and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2000-11-15 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Children of Facundo Ariel de la Fuente examines postindependence Argentinian instability and political struggle from the perspective of the rural lower classes. As the first comprehensive regional study to explore nineteenth-century society, culture, and politics in the Argentine interior—where more than 50 percent of the population lived at the time—the book departs from the predominant Buenos Aires-centered historiography to analyze this crucial period in the processes of state- and nation-building. La Rioja, a province in the northwest section of the country, was the land of the caudillos immortalized by Domingo F. Sarmiento, particularly in his foundational and controversial book Facundo. De la Fuente focuses on the repeated rebellions in this district during the 1860s, when Federalist caudillos and their followers, the gauchos, rose up against the new Unitarian government. In this social and cultural analysis, de la Fuente argues that the conflict was not a factional struggle between two ideologically identical sectors of the elite, as commonly depicted. Instead, he believes, the struggle should be seen from the perspective of the lower-class gauchos, for whom Unitarianism and Federalism were highly differentiated party identities that represented different experiences during the nineteenth century. To reconstruct this rural political culture de la Fuente relies on sources that heretofore have been little used in the study of nineteenth-century Latin American politics, most notably a rich folklore collection of popular political songs, folktales, testimonies, and superstitions passed down by old gauchos who had been witnesses or protagonists of the rebellions. Criminal trial records, private diaries, and land censuses add to the originality of de la Fuente’s study, while also providing a new perspective on Sarmiento’s works, including the classic Facundo. This book will interest those specializing in Latin American history, literature, politics, and rural issues.

Author : Diana Sorensen Goodrich
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 029277902X
Total Pages : 231 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Facundo and the Construction of Argentine Culture written by Diana Sorensen Goodrich and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Domingo F. Sarmiento's classic 1845 essay Facundo, Civilizacion y Barbarie opened an inquiry into the nature of Argentinian culture that continues to the present day. In this elegantly written study, Diana Sorensen Goodrich explores the varied, and often conflicting, readings that Facundo has received since its publication and shows how these readings have contributed to the making and remaking of the Argentine nation and its culture. Goodrich's analysis sheds new light on the intersection between canon formation and nation-building. While much has been written about Facundo as a primary text in Latin American letters, this is the first study that locates it within the problematics of canon formation and the cultural, social, and political contexts in which conflicting interpretations are constructed. This new approach to Facundo illuminates the interactions among institutions, cultural ideologies, and political life. This book will be important reading for everyone interested in questions of national identity and the institutionalization of a national tradition.

Author : Ariel de la Fuente
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780822325963
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Children of Facundo written by Ariel de la Fuente and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2000-11-15 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVCombines peasant studies and cultural history to revise the received wisdom on nineteenth-century Argentinian politics and aspects of the Argentinian state-formation process./div

Author : Domingo Faustino Sarmiento
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 454 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Life in the Argentine Republic in the Days of the Tyrants written by Domingo Faustino Sarmiento and published by . This book was released on 1868 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Frances G. Crowley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 20 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Facundo written by Frances G. Crowley and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : United States. Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 450 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Miscellaneous Series written by United States. Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Cyril A. Jones
Publisher : London : Grant and Cutler
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 92 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sarmiento "Facundo" written by Cyril A. Jones and published by London : Grant and Cutler. This book was released on 1974 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : A. C. Facundo
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 1438463103
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Oscillations of Literary Theory written by A. C. Facundo and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2016-09-30 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Revises key psychoanalytic concepts that influence interpretive practices in the humanities and formulates a new approach to reading fiction. Oscillations of Literary Theory offers a new psychoanalytic approach to reading literature queerly, one that implicates queer theory without depending on explicit representations of sex or queer identities. By focusing on desire and identifications, A. C. Facundo argues that readers can enjoy the text through a variety of rhythms between two (eroticized) positions: the paranoid imperative and queer reparative. Facundo examines the metaphor of rupture as central to the logic of critique, particularly the project to undo conventional formations of identity and power. To show how readers can rebuild their relational worlds after the rupture, Facundo looks to the themes of the desire for omniscience, the queer pleasure of the text, loss and letting go, and the vanishing points that structure thinking. Analyses of Nabokov’s Lolita, Danielewski’s House of Leaves, Findley’s The Wars, and Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go are included, which model this new approach to reading. A. C. Facundo is an independent scholar, who received a PhD in English from York University in Toronto and continued as a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council postdoctoral fellow at the University at Buffalo, State University of New York.