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Postcolonial Borges
Postcolonial Borges
This work considers geopolitical and postcolonial themes in a range of writings by Jorge Luis Borges, analysing the development of a postcolonial sensibility in works such as ‘Myth...
Borges the Post-Orientalist
Borges the Post-Orientalist
The chapter examines several works including ‘The East’, ‘A Thousand and One Nights’, and ‘Buddhism’, which are on subjects relating to the East, and finds conclusive evidence of a...
Introduction
Introduction
Writing in 1924 in his adopted homeland of Argentina, Pedro Henríquez Ureña envisaged an uplifting and a hospitable role for the Americas in a world of change and promise. That ver...
Consolidating the Postcolonial Agenda
Consolidating the Postcolonial Agenda
This chapter complements preceding analyses with coverage of themes including language, River Plate identity, self and other, and the contribution of Borges’s family line to the li...
Conclusion
Conclusion
The chapter offers a concluding synthesis of Borges’s geopolitical and postcolonial thinking, organized around the concepts of i) Argentine culture; ii) personal, national, and reg...
Self, Family, Nation
Self, Family, Nation
The chapter sets ‘Theme of the Traitor and the Hero’ within the matrix of Romantic nationalism in several locations including South America in the 1820s, after the Battle of Junín ...