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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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Island Studies Journal
2009-11-01
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Series: | Island Studies Journal |
Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.24043/isj.235 |