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Author Huberman, Ariana

Title Gauchos and Foreigners : Glossing Culture and Identity in the Argentine Countryside
Published Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield Pub. Group, 2011

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Description 1 online resource (147 pages)
Contents Chapter 1: The Gaucho in Argentine History, National Language, and Landscape -- Chapter 2: W.H. Hudson: A Naturalist'sRendition of the Gauchoand His Habitat -- Chapter 3: Benito Lynch: A Realistic Portraitof the Gaucho and the Pampas -- Chapter 4: Alberto Gerchunoff:An Uncomfortable Canon
Summary 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 termsfrom the national glossary the gaucho, his lifestyle and habitat and from "foreign" cultures, ult
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Subject Hudson, W. H. (William Henry), 1841-1922 -- Criticism and interpretation
Lynch, Benito, 1880-1951 -- Criticism and interpretation
Gerchunoff, Alberto, 1883-1950 -- Criticism and interpretation
SUBJECT Gerchunoff, Alberto, 1883-1950 fast
Hudson, W. H. (William Henry), 1841-1922 fast
Lynch, Benito, 1880-1951 fast
Subject Argentine literature -- History and criticism
Gauchos in literature.
National characteristics, Argentine, in literature.
Gauchos -- Argentina -- History
Argentine literature
Gauchos
Gauchos in literature
National characteristics, Argentine, in literature
Argentina
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780739149065
0739149067