Acknowledgments xiii
General Introduction 1
I. At the Margins of the Empire 15
The Deeds of Elal / Anonymous 19
Going Wild / Ulderico Schmidt 23
Monsters in Patagonia / Antonio Pigafetta 27
Women Captives / Ruy Diaz de Guzman 30
The Jesuit Mission / Father Strobel 34
A Gaucho Sings the Victories of the Empire / Juan Baltasar Maciel 38
The First British Invasion / Mariquita Sanchez de Thompson 40
II. To Build a Nation 43
The Revolution / Tulio Halperin Donghi 47
The Landowners' Petition / Mariano Moreno 66
The Good Citizen / Jose de San Martin 71
Women in the Fatherland / Juana Manuela Gorriti 73
The Caudillo's Order / Juan Manuel de Rosas 75
Civilization or Barbarism? / Domingo Faustino Sarmiento 80
Rosas and Washington / Pedro de Angelis 91
The Black Girl / Anonymous 93
Immigration as a Means of Progress / Juan Bautista Alberdi 95
III. Frontiers 103
The Slaughterhouse / Esteban Echeverria 107
Wars of Extermination / Charles Darwin 115
The Triple Alliance / Captain Francisco Seeber 119
One Hundred Leagues of Trench / Alfred Ebelot 126
Gauchos in and out of the State / Jose Hernandez 133
An Expedition to the Ranquel Indians / Lucio V. Mansilla 146
Letter to the President / Chief Manuel Namuncura 154
IV. Splendor and Fin de Siecle 157
The Foundation of the National State / David Vinas 161
The Paris of South America / James Scobie 170
The Modern Crowd / Jose Maria Ramos Mejia 182
Making It in America / Oreste Sola 188
The Jewish Gauchos / Alberto Gerchunoff 193
The Birth of Tango / Simon Collier 196
Bourgeois Snakes / Jose Ingenieros 203
Argentina as Latin American Avant-Garde / Ruben Dario 206
National Identity in a Cosmopolitan Society / Leopoldo Lugones 209
V. Modern Times 215
Simon Radowitzky / Osvaldo Bayer 219
The Union Civica Radical / David Rock 231
Poems to Be Read on a Trolley Car / Oliverio Girondo 251
Modern Women / Alfonsina Storni 254
X-Ray of the Pampa / Ezequiel Martinez Estrada 259
Soccer and Popular Joy / Roberto Arlt 263
Cambalache / Enrique Santos Discepolo 266
VI. Populism and New Nationalism 269
Peron and the People / Daniel James 273
Saint Evita / Tomas Eloy Martinez 296
Ramona's Revenge / Lino Palacio 304
Funes, the Memorious / Jorge Luis Borges 306
Victorian Fathers / Victoria Ocampo 313
The Foreign Gaze / Witold Gombrowicz 319
Village on the River / Juan L. Ortiz 324
House Taken Over / Julio Cortazar 328
Operation Massacre / Rodlfo Walsh 333
VII. Revolutionary Dreams 341
The Latin American Revolution according to "Che" / Ernesto "Che" Guevara 345
Are We All Neurotic? / Anonymous 352
Tucuman Is Burning / Maria Teresa Gramuglio and Nicolas Rosa 358
The Cordobazo / Agustin Tosco 364
The Words of Silence / Alejandra Pizarnik 372
The Muleteer / Atahualpa Yupanqui 375
Montoneros: Soldiers of Peron / Richard Gillespie 377
Antirevolutionary Peronism / Juan Domingo Peron 386
VIII. State Violence 395
Modernization and Military Coups / Guillermo O'Donnell 399
Artificial Respiration / Ricardo Piglia 421
The Madwomen at the Plaza de Mayo / Hebe de Bonafini and Matilde Sanchez 429
Never Again / National Commission on the Disappearance of Persons 440
Still Harboring / Juan Gelman 448
In a State of Memory / Tununa Mercado 450
Corpses / Nestor Perlongher 457
War in the South Atlantic / Graciela Speranza and Fernando Cittadini 465
IX. Democracy and Neoliberalism 473
Teaching the Republic / Raul Alfonsin 477
Living with Inflation / Osvaldo Soriano 481
Menem: A New Style in Politics / Vicente Palermo and Marcos Novaro 487
The Journalist as the People's Detective / Horacio Gonzalez 495
Roadblocks, Detours, and Crossroads / Rodolfo Rabanal 500
X. Argentina in the Age of Globalization: New Citizenships and the Politics of Memory 505
We Are All Cursed / Javier Auyero 509
Soccer and Masculinity / Eduardo Archetti 519
Amerindian Rights / State Law of Indigenous Rights 525
Feminist Awakenings / Marcela Nari 528
The Children of Death / Maria Moreno and Marta Dillon 538
Active Memory / Laura Ginsberg 544
Infinity / Cesar Aira 549
Postmodern Forgetfulness / Beatriz Sarlo 553
Suggestions for Further Readings 557
Acknowledgment of Copyrights 565
Index 571

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