Jorge Luis Borges in context

by Fiddian, Robin W.

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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:2020.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Cambridge University Press
Place of Publication:Cambridge
Language:eng
Publication Date:2020.

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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 15 Jan 2020).

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource (xxi, 285 pages) : : PDF file(s).

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9781108635981, 1108635989
oclc:on1233262601
LC Classification:PQ7797.B635
Dewey Decimal:868/.6209

Cover -- Half-title page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- List of Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Permissions -- Note on Primary Sources and Editions Used -- Chronology -- Note on Translations and Abbreviations -- Introduction Borges in Context, Context in Borges -- Part I Self, Family, and the Argentine Nation -- Chapter 1 Borges and the Question of Argentine Identity -- Chapter 2 Borges and the Banda Oriental -- Chapter 3 Borges in Person: Family, Love, and Sex -- Chapter 4 Jorge Luis Borges's Fictions and the Two World Wars -- Chapter 5 Dictatorship and Writing (1976-1983) -- Chapter 6 The Public Author and Democracy (1984-1986) -- Chapter 7 Borges and Las Islas Malvinas -- Chapter 8 Borges and Sarmiento -- Chapter 9 Borges and the Gauchesque -- Chapter 10 1920s Buenos Aires -- Chapter 11 Borges and the Argentine Avant-Garde -- Chapter 12 The Argentine Writer and Tradition -- Chapter 13 Borges, Tangos, and Milongas -- Chapter 14 Borges and Bioy Casares -- Chapter 15 Borges and Popular Culture -- Chapter 16 Argentine Responses: César Aira and Ricardo Piglia -- Part II The Western Canon, the East, Contexts of Reception -- Chapter 17 Borg…