TY - BOOK AU - Riobó,Carlos TI - Caught between the lines: captives, frontiers, and national identity in Argentine literature and art T2 - New hispanisms SN - 9781496213884 AV - PQ7622.N24 R56 2019 U1 - 860.9/982 23 PY - 2019///] CY - Lincoln PB - University of Nebraska Press KW - Argentine literature KW - History and criticism KW - Arts, Argentine KW - National characteristics, Argentine, in literature KW - Literature and society KW - Argentina KW - Arts and society KW - Captivity in literature KW - Boundaries in art KW - Boundaries in literature KW - Littérature argentine KW - Histoire et critique KW - Arts argentins KW - Argentins dans la littérature KW - Littérature et société KW - Argentine KW - Arts et société KW - Captivité dans la littérature KW - Frontières dans l'art KW - Frontières dans la littérature KW - LITERARY CRITICISM KW - European KW - Spanish & Portuguese KW - bisacsh KW - HISTORY KW - Latin America KW - South America KW - fast KW - Electronic books KW - Criticism, interpretation, etc N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; The national trope of captivity within Argentine history -- Crossing borders: Mestizaje and frontiers -- Ambivalent histories: an early legend and a first-person account -- Captives in Argentine literature -- Visual representations of captives in Argentine art N2 - Caught between the Lines examines how the figure of the captive and the notion of borders have been used in Argentine literature and painting to reflect competing notions of national identity from the nineteenth to the twenty-first centuries. Challenging the conventional approach to the nineteenth-century trope of "civilization versus barbary," which was intended to criticize the social and ethnic divisions within Argentina in order to create a homogenous society, Carlos Riobó traces the various versions of colonial captivity legends. He argues convincingly that the historical conditions of the colonial period created an ethnic hybridity--a mestizo or culturally mixed identity--that went against the state compulsion for a racially pure identity. This mestizaje was signified not only in Argentina's literature but also in its art, and Riobó thus analyzes colonial paintings as well as texts. Caught between the Lines focuses on borders and mestizaje (both biological and cultural) as they relate to captives: specifically, how captives have been used to create a national image of Argentina that relies on a logic of separation to justify concepts of national purity and to deny transculturation UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=2029882 ER -