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Lexington Books Gauchos and Foreigners: Glossing Culture and Identity in the Argentine Countryside

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Product Description In Gauchos and Foreigners: Glossing Culture and Identity in the Argentine Countryside Ariana Huberman discusses the relationship between the gaucho figure and the "foreigner" in Argentine rural literature. The narratives of William Henry Hudson, Benito Lynch and Alberto Gerchunoff present English scientists and travelers, as well as Jewish and Italian immigrants, in direct contact with the gaucho in the Argentine and Uruguayan countryside. The book shows how the intent to define and translate terms from the national glossary the gaucho, his lifestyle and habitat and from "foreign" cultures, ultimately questions these terms' capacity to represent a specific culture. It traces a series of writing practices that challenge the concepts of "native" and "foreign" as stable categories of representation by conveying identity and culture across multiple linguistic, social and cultural registers. The reading of these unique practices of translation hopes to offer a fresh approach to the multicultural scope of Argentine literature. Review Ariana Huberman's Gauchos and Foreigners offers a rich, provocative reflection on national myths and constructions of national identity in Argentina. The gaucho, a powerful ideological figure in Argentine literature, endowed with near-mystical status, is subjected in this book to new readings through the novels of three unusual authors -- William Henry Hudson, Benito Lynch, and Alberto Gerchunoff -- who, purposely blurring the limits between the national and the foreign, deconstruct the national icon. This is a most stimulating, critically productive contribution to ongoing debates on national belonging, regional specificity, and cross-cultural exchange.--Sylvia Molloy, Albert Schweitzer Professor of Humanities, New York University In an original reading of works by W.H. Hudson, Benito Lynch and Alberto Gerchunoff, Ariana Huberman cleverly demonstrates the way in which foreignness is inseparable from that which has conventionally been understood as authentically "Argentine": the pampas and the figure of the gaucho. Through the lens of translation theory and Paul de Man's notion of disarticulation, Huberman persuasively argues for a reconsideration of the relationship between the foreign and the autochthonous in late-nineteenth and early twentieth-century Argentine literary production, insisting that the act of translating or glossing the other is always at work in projects to imagine the national self. Gauchos and Foreigners will be of great interest to students and specialists in the fields of both Jewish studies and Latin American literature.--Erin Graff Zivin, University of Southern California This provocative book is an original reflection on identities, languages, and translations within the framework of the changing culture of Argentina throughout the 19th and 20th centuries. Ariana Huberman presents the pampa as expansive plains replete with cultural transactions. In the fictions she analyzes this desolate environment becomes a variegated space where native and foreign dwellers have to be mutually translated. Languages in this fascinating Argentine landscape thereby constitute powerful instruments through which cultures explore themselves and each other.--Graciela Montaldo, Columbia University About the Author Ariana Huberman is visiting associate professor of Spanish at Haverford College

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Brand: Lexington Books
Format: Hardcover
ASIN: 0739149040
Category: Books > Subjects > Poetry, Drama & Criticism > History & Criticism > Literary Theory & Movements
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 16 January 2011
Listed Since: 12 October 2010

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