Figurations of Islandness in Argentine Culture and Literature: Macedonio Fernández, Leopoldo Marechal, and César Aira

This article explores islandness in the River Plate imaginary. Two modern foundational “island texts” – Thomas More’s _Utopia_ and Daniel Defoe’s _Robinson Crusoe_ – have exerted a formative influence on the Spanish-American colonial imagination, an influence inflected by the particular historical e...

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Main Author: Norman Cheadle
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Island Studies Journal 2009-11-01
Series:Island Studies Journal
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.24043/isj.235