The Making of Jorge Luis Borges as an Argentine Cultural Icon

Mariana Casale O'Ryan

The Making of Jorge Luis Borges as an Argentine Cultural Icon

Mariana Casale O'Ryan

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Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986), Argentinian writer

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MHRA Texts and Dissertations 99

Modern Humanities Research Association

1 May 2014 • 226pp

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Jorge Luis Borges is, undeniably, Argentina’s best-known and most influential writer. In addition to scholarly studies of his work, his emblematic figure continues to appear on book covers and carrier bags, in biographies, plaques and statues, photographs and interviews, as well as cartoons and city tours.

The Making of Jorge Luis Borges as an Argentine Cultural Icon argues that the ideas and expectations that Argentine people have placed upon the author – thus constructing the icon – are also those that allow them to define their cultural identity. The book examines these intertwined processes by analysing the image of Borges in biographies, photographs, comic strips and urban spaces and the socio-political, historical and cultural contexts in which they were produced.

The study seeks not to reveal a Borgesian essence but, rather, to expose the complexity of the ongoing mechanisms which construct Borges the icon. Despite the vast amount of biographical and critical work about the writer that has been produced in Argentina and abroad, The Making of Jorge Luis Borges as an Argentine Cultural Icon is the first in-depth, comprehensive examination of the construction of the author as an Argentine cultural icon.

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i-iv	Front Matter Mariana Casale O'Ryan doi:10.2307/j.ctt9qfbdn.1	Cite
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v-vii	Table of Contents Mariana Casale O'Ryan doi:10.2307/j.ctt9qfbdn.2	Cite
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viii-ix	List of Illustrations Mariana Casale O'Ryan doi:10.2307/j.ctt9qfbdn.3	Cite
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x-x	List of Abbreviations Mariana Casale O'Ryan doi:10.2307/j.ctt9qfbdn.4	Cite
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xi-xi	Abstract Mariana Casale O'Ryan doi:10.2307/j.ctt9qfbdn.5	Cite
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xii-xiii	Acknowledgements Mariana Casale O'Ryan doi:10.2307/j.ctt9qfbdn.6	Cite
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xiv-xiv	Dedication Mariana Casale O'Ryan doi:10.2307/j.ctt9qfbdn.7	Cite
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1-23	Introduction Mariana Casale O'Ryan doi:10.2307/j.ctt9qfbdn.8	Cite
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24-62	Chapter 1 Weaving Through the Threshold: Literary Biographies of Borges Mariana Casale O'Ryan doi:10.2307/j.ctt9qfbdn.9	Cite
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63-111	Chapter 2 Portrait of the Artist As An Old Man: Images of Borges Mariana Casale O'Ryan doi:10.2307/j.ctt9qfbdn.10	Cite
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112-151	Chapter 3 Borges Para Sobrevivientes: Culture, Politics and Comic Strips of the 1980s Mariana Casale O'Ryan doi:10.2307/j.ctt9qfbdn.11	Cite
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152-187	Chapter 4 El Desaforado Caminador: Buenos Aires’s ‘Borgesian Spaces’ Mariana Casale O'Ryan doi:10.2307/j.ctt9qfbdn.12	Cite
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188-191	Conclusion Mariana Casale O'Ryan doi:10.2307/j.ctt9qfbdn.13	Cite
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192-204	Bibliography Mariana Casale O'Ryan doi:10.2307/j.ctt9qfbdn.14	Cite
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205-212	INDEX Mariana Casale O'Ryan doi:10.2307/j.ctt9qfbdn.15	Cite
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O'Ryan, Mariana Casale, The Making of Jorge Luis Borges as an Argentine Cultural Icon, MHRA Texts and Dissertations, 99 (MHRA, 2014)

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