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Caught between the lines : captives, frontiers, and national identity in Argentine literature and art /

'Caught between the Lines' examines how the figure of the captive and the notion of borders have been used in Argentine literature and painting to reflect competing notions of national identity from the nineteenth to the twenty-first centuries.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Riobó, Carlos, 1968- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2019]
Series:New hispanisms.
Subjects:
Argentine literature > History and criticism.
Arts, Argentine.
National characteristics, Argentine, in literature.
Literature and society > Argentina.
Arts and society > Argentina.
Captivity in art.
Captivity in literature.
Boundaries in art.
Boundaries in literature.
Table of Contents:
  • The national trope of captivity within Argentine history
  • Crossing borders: Mestizaje and frontiers
  • Ambivalent histories: an early legend and a first-person account
  • Captives in Argentine literature: a mimetic historical record
  • Visual representations of captives in Argentine art.