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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).","forthcoming":false,"isbn13":"9780816649495","publication_date":"20080805","publisher":"University of Minnesota Press","slug":"argentina","subtitle":"Stories for a Nation","title":"Argentina"},"discovery":{"categories":{"all":[{"bisac_code":"TRV024010","confidence_band":"high","label":"Travel in Argentina","score":0.8186,"source":"bisac_hint_model"},{"bisac_code":"SOC008050","confidence_band":"medium","label":"Caribbean & Latin American Studies","score":0.7571,"source":"bisac_hint_model"},{"bisac_code":"LIT004100","confidence_band":"medium","label":"Caribbean & Latin American Criticism","score":0.7536,"source":"bisac_hint_model"}],"hint":[{"bisac_code":"TRV024010","confidence_band":"high","label":"Travel in Argentina","score":0.8186,"source":"bisac_hint_model"},{"bisac_code":"SOC008050","confidence_band":"medium","label":"Caribbean & Latin American Studies","score":0.7571,"source":"bisac_hint_model"},{"bisac_code":"LIT004100","confidence_band":"medium","label":"Caribbean & Latin American Criticism","score":0.7536,"source":"bisac_hint_model"}],"publisher":[{"bisac_code":"LIT004100","confidence_band":"high","label":"Caribbean & Latin American Criticism","score":1,"source":"onix_publisher_code"},{"bisac_code":"SOC008000","confidence_band":"high","label":"Ethnic Studies","score":1,"source":"onix_publisher_code"}]},"genres":[{"label":"Travel in Argentina","score":0.8186,"slug":"travel-in-argentina"},{"label":"Caribbean & Latin American Studies","score":0.7571,"slug":"caribbean-latin-american-studies"},{"label":"Caribbean & Latin American Criticism","score":0.7536,"slug":"caribbean-latin-american-criticism"}],"reader_fit":["Good for readers interested in Argentina’s national identity and its global image","Good for readers interested in literary and media representations of a nation"],"related_lists":[],"series":null,"similar_books":[{"authors":["Diego Armus","Lisa Ubelaker Andrade"],"book_id":"9781478030843","cover_image_url":"https://img.bookfrontier.com/9781478030843.jpg?v=49cf7c73204571fa","score":0.7985,"title":"The Buenos Aires Reader","url":"https://bookfrontier.com/books/9781478030843"},{"authors":["Jason Wilson"],"book_id":"9781623717391","cover_image_url":"https://img.bookfrontier.com/9781623717391.jpg?v=7b36c3d78fe6b392","score":0.7933,"title":"Buenos Aires","url":"https://bookfrontier.com/books/9781623717391"},{"authors":["Mary Godward","Robert Hamwee"],"book_id":"9781787023369","cover_image_url":"https://img.bookfrontier.com/9781787023369.jpg?v=44ef7f073b58b852","score":0.7771,"title":"Argentina - Culture Smart!","url":"https://bookfrontier.com/books/9781787023369"},{"authors":["Melissa A. 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