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Simon Bolivar - Travels and Transformations of a Cultural Icon (Paperback)
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Simon Bolivar - Travels and Transformations of a Cultural Icon (Paperback)
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One of Latin America's most famous historical figures, Simon
Bolivar has become a mythic symbol for many nations, empires, and
revolutions used to support wildly diverse-sometimes
opposite-ideas. From colonial Cuba to Nazi-occupied France to Cold
War-era Slovenia, the image of "El Libertador" has variously
signified loyalty, national unity, liberation, freedom, and revolt.
In this volume, an array of international and interdisciplinary
scholars shows the ways Bolivar has appeared over the last two
centuries in painting, fiction, poetry, music, film, festival,
dance, city planning, and even reliquary adoration. They illustrate
how Bolivar's body has been exalted, reimagined, or fragmented in
different contexts, taking on a range of meanings to represent the
politics and poetics of today's national bodies. By critically
analyzing many examples of cultural Bolivarianisms, or cults of
Bolivar, this collection demonstrates the capacity of the arts and
humanities to challenge and reinvent hegemonic icons and narratives
and, therefore, to be vital to democracy.
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