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Slaughterhouse

Week Five: Caudillos Versus the Nation State

I would like to focus this week’s blog post on the Slaughter-house reading because the passage itself was so compelling. To start off, I wanted to mention a detail that stuck out for me. It was the 50 bullocks who were meant to be killed were actually for the the upperclass instead of the the […]

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Week 5 – Caudillos

I found this week’s discussion of the caudillos really interesting because I saw so many parallels between caudillos and clientelism with today’s political figures and government. Like many political fanatics, I have been trying to understand how Donald Trump won the presidency in the US last year, and after watching how he appeals to his […]

Posted in Blogs, Week 5 | Tagged with caudillos, Esteban Echeverria, government, identity, liberalism, Slaughterhouse, social order

Week Five

[Pardon the tardiness: my original response got lost before I was to upload it due to an app malfunction on my device…. So here we go: Week Five response round two.] I found the concept of the Caudillo very interesting. I was intrigued by the fact that the Caudillos emerged by themselves out of the … Continue reading Week Five →

Posted in Blogs, Week 5 | Tagged with Argentina, Buenos Aires, caudillo, Leadership, Slaughterhouse

Week Five

[Pardon the tardiness: my original response got lost before I was to upload it due to an app malfunction on my device…. So here we go: Week Five response round two.] I found the concept of the Caudillo very interesting. I was intrigued by the fact that the Caudillos emerged by themselves out of the … Continue reading Week Five →

Posted in Blogs, Week 5 | Tagged with Argentina, Buenos Aires, caudillo, Leadership, Slaughterhouse

Week 5

The first thing that I would like to comment on is the ongoing theme of the Western liberal overstepping its boundaries. There seems to be a reoccurring phenomenon that could be called the “White savior complex”. In the case of post-colonial Latin America, it was the liberals who hoped to enforce a strong central power […]

Posted in Blogs, Week 5 | Tagged with caudillos, Slaughterhouse

Week 5

The first thing that I would like to comment on is the ongoing theme of the Western liberal overstepping its boundaries. There seems to be a reoccurring phenomenon that could be called the “White savior complex”. In the case of post-colonial Latin America, it was the liberals who hoped to enforce a strong central power […]

Posted in Blogs, Week 5 | Tagged with caudillos, Slaughterhouse

Week 5: On “The Slaughterhouse”

The first thing I noticed about this fiction is the use of sarcasm and irony. Echeverría used this powerful literary weapon to fire his condemnation and disdain towards the Federalists. First of all, the federalists surrendered their freedom to the church and the government, and the readiness to bow to commands. Mocking their beliefs, the […]

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Week 5: On “The Slaughterhouse”

The first thing I noticed about this fiction is the use of sarcasm and irony. Echeverría used this powerful literary weapon to fire his condemnation and disdain towards the Federalists. First of all, the federalists surrendered their freedom to the church and the government, and the readiness to bow to commands. Mocking their beliefs, the […]

Posted in Blogs | Tagged with reading report, Slaughterhouse

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