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Argentina

Stories for a Nation

By: Amy K. Kaminsky

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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 presence in a broad range of literary texts from the United States, Poland, England, Western Europe, and Argentina itself, as well as internationally produced films, advertisements, and newspaper features. Kaminsky's examination reveals how Europe consumes an image of Argentina that acts as a pivot between the exotic and the familiar. Going beyond the idea of suffocating Eurocentrism as a theory of national identity, Kaminsky presents an original and vivid reading of national myths and realities that encapsulates the interplay among the many meanings of "Argentina" and its place in the world's imagination. Amy Kaminsky is professor of gender, women, and sexuality studies and global studies at the University of Minnesota and author of After Exile (Minnesota, 1999).

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Reading the Body Politic

Feminist Criticism and Latin American Women Writers

By: Amy K. Kaminsky

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Reading the Body Politic

Feminist Criticism and Latin American Women Writers

By: Amy K. Kaminsky

Reading the Body Politic" proposes a Latin American feminist criticism that is both regionally specific and in current dialogue with North American and European feminist practices. Amy Kaminsky brings together Latin American materialist criticism, which sees itself as part of an oppositional, anti-colonialist politics, and feminist criticism, which locates the female body at the centre of its analysis and acknowledges its ties to a political movement dedicated to the eradication of gender oppression. In "Reading the Body Politic", Kaminsky unravels a particular problem of North American feminist analyses. "Identity" and "self", she argues, have become stumbling blocks for feminist critics caught between the will to deconstruct "woman" and the need for identity as the basis for political action. From the rhetoric of Latin American oppositional politics, Kaminsky borrows the term "presence," which asserts a self and an identity constructed within the context of political action, in concert with a community and against a subject determined to deny the existence of community. "Reading the Body Politic" engages specific topics and texts with reference to the larger problem of theorizing and enacting a Latin American feminist criticism: exile in the poetry and narrative of Gabriela Mistral, Cristina Peri Rossi, Luisa Valenzuela, and Marta Traba; political/testimonial writing in Alicia Partnoy; the construction of the writing subject in Elena Poniatowska and Brimmer's "Gaby Brimmer"; the limits of European feminist theory with reference to Elena Garro's "Recollections of things to come"; and writing and lesbian sexuality in texts by Sylvia Molloy and Cristina Peri Rossi.

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Stories for a Nation

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