Civilization or Barbarism?

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments xiii
4. General Introduction 1
5. I. At the Margins of the Empire
6. The Deeds of Elal. Anonymous 15
7. Going Wild 23
8. Monsters in Patagonia 27
9. Women Captives 30
10. The Jesuit Mission 34
11. A Gaucho Sings the Victories of the Empire 38
12. The First British Invasion 40
13. II.To Build a Nation
14. The Revolution 43
15. The Landowners’ Petition 66
16. The Good Citizen 71
17. Women in the Fatherland 73
18. The Caudillo’s Order 75
19. Civilization or Barbarism? 80
20. Rosas and Washington 91
21. The Black Girl. Anonymous 93
22. Immigration as a Means of Progress 95
23. III. Frontiers
24. The Slaughterhouse. 103
25. Wars of Extermination 115
26. The Triple Alliance 119
27. One Hundred Leagues of Trench 126
28. Gauchos in and out of the State 133
29. An Expedition to the Ranquel Indians 146
30. Letter to the President 154
31. IV. Splendor and Fin de Siècle
32. The Foundation of the National State 157
33. The Paris of South America 170
34. The Modern Crowd 182
35. Making it in America 188
36. The Jewish Gauchos 193
37. The Birth of Tango 196
38. Bourgeois Snakes 203
39. Argentina as Latin American Avant-Garde 206
40. National Identity in a Cosmopolitan Society 209
41. V. Modern Times
42. Simón Radowitzky 215
43. The Unión Cívica Radical 231
44. Poems to Be Read on a Trolley Car 251
45. Modern Women 254
46. X-Ray of the Pampa 259
47. Soccer and Popular Joy 263
48. Cambalache 266
49. VI. Populism and New Nationalism
50. Perón and the People 269
51. Saint Evita 296
52. Ramona’s Revenge 304
53. Funes, the Memorious 306
54. Victorian Fathers 313
55. The Foreign Gaze 319
56. Village on the River 324
57. House Taken Over 328
58. Operation Massacre 333
59. VII. Revolutionary Dreams
60. The Latin American Revolution According to ‘‘Che’’ 341
61. Are We All Neurotic?. Anonymous 352
62. Tucumán Is Burning 358
63. The Cordobazo 364
64. The Words of Silence 372
65. The Muleteer 375
66. Montoneros: Soldiers of Perón 377
67. Antirevolutionary Peronism 386
68. VIII. State Violence
69. Modernization and Military Coups 395
70. Artificial Respiration 421
71. The Madwomen at the Plaza de Mayo 429
72. Never Again. National Commission on the Disappearance of Persons 440
73. Still Harboring 448
74. In a State of Memory 450
75. Corpses 457
76. War in the South Atlantic 465
77. IX. Democracy and Neoliberalism
78. Teaching the Republic 473
79. Living with Inflation 481
80. Menem: A New Style in Politics 487
81. The Journalist as the People’s Detective 495
82. Roadblocks, Detours, and Crossroads 500
83. X. Argentina in the Age of Globalization: New Citizenships and the Politics of Memory
84. We Are All Cursed 505
85. Soccer and Masculinity 519
86. Amerindian Rights. State Law of Indigenous Rights 525
87. Feminist Awakenings 528
88. The Children of Death 538
89. Active Memory 544
90. Infinity 549
91. Postmodern Forgetfulness 553
92. Suggestions for Further Reading 557
93. Acknowledgment of Copyrights 565
94. Index 571