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By the end of the twentieth century, Argentina's complex
identity-tango and chimichurri, Eva Peron and the Mothers of the
Plaza de Mayo, the Falklands and the Dirty War, Jorge Luis Borges
and Maradona, economic chaos and a memory of vast wealth-has become
entrenched in the consciousness of the Western world. In this
wide-ranging and at times poetic new work, Amy K. Kaminsky explores
Argentina's unique national identity and the place it holds in the
minds of those who live beyond its physical borders. To analyze the
country's meaning in the global imagination, Kaminsky probes
Argentina's presence in a broad range of literary texts from the
United States, Poland, England, Western Europe, and Argentina
itself, as well as internationally produced films, advertisements,
and newspaper features. Kaminsky's examination reveals how Europe
consumes an image of Argentina that acts as a pivot between the
exotic and the familiar. Going beyond the idea of suffocating
Eurocentrism as a theory of national identity, Kaminsky presents an
original and vivid reading of national myths and realities that
encapsulates the interplay among the many meanings of "Argentina"
and its place in the world's imagination. Amy Kaminsky is professor
of gender, women, and sexuality studies and global studies at the
University of Minnesota and author of After Exile" (Minnesota,
1999).
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