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Chapter 1 - Borges and the Question of Argentine Identity

from Part I - Self, Family, and the Argentine Nation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 January 2020

By
Edwin Williamson
Edited by
Robin Fiddian
Robin Fiddian
Affiliation:
University of Oxford
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Throughout his life, Borges was concerned with the identity of his nation. The model of the gaucho from nineteenth century letters was replaced by faith in the criollos, who Borges in the 1920s believed should join forces with immigrants to create a democratic and progressive model for the nation. In the 1940s and 1950s, Borges took up a position against right-wing nationalists including General Perón. Later, after he had declared support for the military coup of 1976, Borges acknowledged his mistake and expressed a utopian vision of a world modelled on the Swiss Confederation.

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identitygauchocriollismodemocracyanti-nationalismPerónmilitary
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Jorge Luis Borges in Context , pp. 11 - 17
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2020

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