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5. Caudillos Versus the Nation State

5. Caudillos Versus the Nation State

week 5 lecture (video)

Posted in Lecture Videos, Week 5 Lecture | Tagged with affect, Argentina, barbarism, C19th, caudillos, civilization, Echeverría, liberalism, literature, misplaced ideas, violence, war

The Slaughterhouse

The Slaughterhouse

Jon Beasley-Murray and Alec Dawson on “The Slaughterhouse” (podcast)

Posted in Podcasts, Week 5 Podcasts | Tagged with Argentina, C19th, caudillo, Echeverría, literature, politics, religion, violence

Literature and Politics

Literature and Politics

A conversation with Rita De Grandis

Posted in Interview Videos, Week 5 Videos | Tagged with allegory, Argentina, C19th, caudillos, Echeverría, literature, politics

2. The Meeting of Two Worlds

2. The Meeting of Two Worlds

Week 2 lecture (video)

Posted in Lecture Videos, Week 2 Lecture | Tagged with allegory, C15th, C16th, colonization, Columbus, conquest, history, Las Casas, literature, myth, narrative, representation, Todorov

Towards an Uncertain Future

  After reading this week’s last chapter, I got the feeling that there is a bit of anxiety when it comes to predicting the future of an entire region, especially one so volatile like Latin America. If we know something about current international politics, and specifically of the United States, is that this powerful nation […]

Posted in Blogs, Week 13 | Tagged with America, Argentina, colombia, Economical, latin america, latino, literature, modernity, Peru, Political

Towards an Uncertain Future

  After reading this week’s last chapter, I got the feeling that there is a bit of anxiety when it comes to predicting the future of an entire region, especially one so volatile like Latin America. If we know something about current international politics, and specifically of the United States, is that this powerful nation […]

Posted in Blogs, Week 13 | Tagged with America, Argentina, colombia, Economical, latin america, latino, literature, modernity, Peru, Political

Week Five: “Caudillos versus the Nation State”

It is clear that right after independence was gained by different countries in Latin America, the ‘caudillo’ figure was born out of necessity. Consequently, this was the care because some political similarities were necessary to maintaining pre-existing colonial ways of managing power relations. I find it interesting to know the story of Santa Anna, Mexico’s […]

Posted in Blogs, Week 5 | Tagged with Argentina, Barbarims, Civilizatioin, literature

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