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Beyond Civilization and Barbarism examines how various cultural
forms promoted competing political projects in Argentina during the
decades following independence from Spain. This turbulent period
has long been characterized as a struggle between two
irreconcilable forces: the dictatorship of Juan Manuel de Rosas
(1829-1852) versus a dissident intellectual elite. Most famously,
Domingo Faustino Sarmiento described the conflict in his canonical
Facundo (1845) as a clash between civilization and barbarism, which
has become a catchphrase for the experience of modernity throughout
Latin America. Against the grain of this durable script, Beyond
Civilization and Barbarism examines an extensive corpus to
demonstrate how adversaries of the period used similar rhetorical
strategies, appealed to the same basic political ideals of
republican government, and were preoccupied with defining and
interpellating the pueblo, or people. In other words, their
collective struggle was fundamentally modern and waged on a
mutually intelligible discursive terrain.
Beyond Civilization and Barbarism examines how various cultural
forms promoted competing political projects in Argentina during the
decades following independence from Spain. This turbulent period
has long been characterized as a struggle between two
irreconcilable forces: the dictatorship of Juan Manuel de Rosas
(1829-1852) versus a dissident intellectual elite. Most famously,
Domingo Faustino Sarmiento described the conflict in his canonical
Facundo (1845) as a clash between civilization and barbarism, which
has become a catchphrase for the experience of modernity throughout
Latin America. Against the grain of this durable script, Beyond
Civilization and Barbarism examines an extensive corpus to
demonstrate how adversaries of the period used similar rhetorical
strategies, appealed to the same basic political ideals of
republican government, and were preoccupied with defining and
interpellating the pueblo, or people. In other words, their
collective struggle was fundamentally modern and waged on a
mutually intelligible discursive terrain.
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