Ficciones de la conjetura. La nación como invención en Borges
In this paper we analyze stories from Ficciones – with particular emphasis on ’Funes el memorioso’ and ’La forma de la espada’ – wherein Borges questions the ideologeme of the nation via the elaboration of “conjectural fictions”. We aim to show that the mechanism of displacement, the interplay of re...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | Spanish |
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Réseau Interuniversitaire d'Ètude des Littératures Contemporaines du Río de la Plata
2015-01-01
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| Series: | Cuadernos LIRICO |
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| Online Access: | http://journals.openedition.org/lirico/1916 |
| Summary: | In this paper we analyze stories from Ficciones – with particular emphasis on ’Funes el memorioso’ and ’La forma de la espada’ – wherein Borges questions the ideologeme of the nation via the elaboration of “conjectural fictions”. We aim to show that the mechanism of displacement, the interplay of real and imaginary facts and details, and the texts’ silences and omissions, all draw attention to the artifice inherent to the idea of the nation, to the nation as (an) invention. |
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| ISSN: | 2262-8339 |