Caught Between the Lines: Captives, Frontiers, and National Identity in Argentine Literature and Art

by Carlos Riobó

Caught between the Lines examines how the figure of the captive and the notion of borders have been used in Argentine literature and painting to reflect competing notions of national identity from the nineteenth to the twenty-first centuries. Challenging the conventional approach to the nineteenth-century trope of "civilization versus barbary," which was intended to criticize the social and ethnic divisions within Argentina in order to create...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1496205529
• ISBN13: 9781496205520
• Release Date: April 2019
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Length: 198 Pages
• Weight: 1.01 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"