Jorge Luis Borges in context

by Fiddian, Robin W.

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Title Statements

Full title :Jorge Luis Borges in context / edited by Robin Fiddian.

Summary

Jorge Luis Borges (1899–1986) is Argentina's most celebrated author. This volume brings together for the first time the numerous contexts in which he lived and worked; from the history of the Borges family and that of modern Argentina, through two world wars, to events including the Cuban Revolution, military dictatorship, and the Falklands War. Borges' distinctive responses to the Western tradition, Cervantes and Shakespeare, Kafka, and the European avant garde are explored, along with his appraisals of Sarmiento, gauchesque literature and other strands of the Argentine cultural tradition. Borges' polemical stance on Catholic integralism in early twentieth-century Argentina is accounted for, whilst chapters on Buddhism, Judaism and landmarks of Persian literature illustrate Borges's engagement with the East. Finally, his legacy is visible in the literatures of the Americas, in European countries such as Italy and Portugal, and in the novels of J. M. Coetzee, representing the Global South.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2022.
Edition:First paperback edition

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Cambridge University Press
Place of Publication:Cambridge
Language:eng
Publication Date:2022.

Notes

Print on demand edition.

Previous edition: 2020.

The Physical Object

Description:xxi, 285 pages : : illustrations (black and white) ;.

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9781108456050, 1108456057, 9781108470445, 1108470440
oclc:on1295108829
Dewey Decimal:868.6209

Introduction: Borges in Context, Context in Borges / Robin Fiddian -- Part I. Self, Family, and the Argentine Nation -- 1. Borges and the Question of Argentine Identity / Edwin Williamson -- 2. Borges and the Banda Oriental / Gustavo San Román -- 3. Borges in Person: Family, Love, and Sex / Edwin Williamson -- 4. Jorge Luis Borges's Fictions and the Two World Wars / Efrain Kristal -- 5. Dictatorship and Writing (1976-1983) / Annick Louis -- 6. The Public Author and Democracy (1984-1986) / Annick Louis -- 7. Borges and Las Islas Malvinas / Ben Bollig -- 8. Borges and Sarmiento / Sandra Contreras -- 9. Borges and the Gauchesque / Sarah Roger -- 10. 1920s Buenos Aires / Eleni Kefala -- 11. Borges and the Argentine Avant-Garde / Eamon McCarthy -- 12. The Argentine Writer and Tradition / Humberto Núñez-Faraco -- 13. Borges, Tangos, and Milongas / Ana C. Cara -- 14. Borges and Bioy Casares / Mariela Blanco -- 15. Borges and Popular Culture / Philip Swanson -- 16. Argentine Responses: César Aira and Ricardo Piglia / Niall H D Geraghty -- Part II. The Western Canon, the East, Contexts of Reception -- 17. Borges and Cervantes / Roberto González Echevarría -- 18. Borges's Shakespeare / Patr…