Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents v
3. Preface vii
4. Acknowledgments xi
5. Introduction 1
6. The Arab Gaucho
7. Sarmiento 31
8. Lugones’S El Payador and the Legacy of Moorish Blood 53
9. Hallar and Yaser Custom-Build the Fictions of the Nation 61
10. Coda 73
11. Writing the Orient to Write the Self
12. Euro-Argentine Orientalisms, Before and After the Watershed of Immigration 79
13. Arab Argentine Re-Presentations of the Orient 111
14. Coda 131
15. Performing Mother Tongues
16. Discursive Copies, Discursive Differences 163
17. Another Dissonant Performance of Argentineness 189
18. Performing an Other Tongue 195
19. In Closing 215
20. Notes 223
21. Bibliography 245
22. Index 261