Sarmiento

Author of a Nation

Bibliographic Data

ID2831867
AuthorsDavid Bushnell (0000-0001-8736-8403, University of Florida, corresponding author), Tulio Halperin Donghi
Year1995
Volume75
Issue3
Pages500
Publication date1995-08-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueHispanic American Historical Review (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0018-2168 • E-ISSN: 1527-1900
PublisherJSTOR (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.2307/2517279
OpenAlexW4245185743
LanguageEN
Citations received7

Domingo Faustino Sarmiento (1811-1888) was one of the most important and controversial figures in Latin American history. Diplomat, statesman, educator, visionary and president of Argentina from 1868 to 1874, he also produced two avowed masterpieces of Spanish prose - Facundo and Recuerdos de Provincia. He saw himself as the standard-bearer of European liberalism in Spanish America and the architect of a nation built on its ideals. Almost all of the great shapers of intellectual life in Latin America have had to reckon with his visions of culture and progress. This collection of 22 essays by pre-eminent interpreters of Latin American culture tackles the paradox of the Sarmiento legacy - his ambitious attempt to reshape Argentina into a modern, export economy society set against his unrivalled position at the centre of Spanish-American letters - and shows the ways in which the political and literary projects are inextricably linked

Economic history · Latin Americans · Liberalism · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Vision · Anthropology · Classics · Cultural and Social Studies in Latin America · Historical Studies in Latin America · History · Law · Literary and Cultural Studies

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