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 exper...
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University of Prince Edward Island
2009-11-01
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| Series: | Island Studies Journal |
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| Online Access: | http://www.islandstudies.ca/sites/vre2.upei.ca.islandstudies.ca/files/ISJ-4-2-2009-Cheadle.pdf |