6. Sarmiento and Economic Progress: From Facundo to the Presidency

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. Preface VII
4. Contributors IX
5. Introduction: Sarmiento between History and Fiction 1
6. 1. SARMIENTO IN HISTORICAL CONTEXT
7. 1. Sarmiento's Place in Postrevolutionary Argentina 19
8. 2. Sarmiento and the Chilean Press, 1841-1851 31
9. 3. Sarmiento and the "Buenos Aires/Córdoba" Duality 61
10. 4. Rereading Viajes: Race, Identity, and National Destiny 73
11. 5. Sarmiento and Political Order: Liberty, Power, and Virtue 101
12. 6. Sarmiento and Economic Progress: From Facundo to the Presidency 114
13. 2. THE WRITING SYSTEMS OF SARMIENTO
14. 7. Sarmiento the Writer 127
15. 8. On the Threshold of Facundo 145
16. 9. The Autodidact and the Learning Machine 156
17. 10. Facundo: The Riches of Poverty 169
18. 11. The Unquiet Self: Mnemonic Strategies in Sarmiento's Autobiographies 193
19. 12. Sarmiento: Madness or Accumulation 213
20. 13. A Lost World Rediscovered: Sarmiento's Facundo 220
21. 3. SARMIENTO: HIS MODELS AND HIS RECEPTION
22. 14. Sarmiento: Casting the Reader, 1839-1845 259
23. 15. Sarmiento and the Woman Question: From 1839 to the Facundo 272
24. 16. The Wiles of Disputation: Alberdi Reads Facundo 294
25. 17. The Latin American Romance in Sarmiento, Borges, Ribeyro, Cortázar, and Rulfo 314
26. 18. The Opulent Facundo: Sarmiento and Modern Argentine Fiction 347
27. 19. Domingo Faustino Sarmiento: The Unnamed Presence in El hombre que está solo y espera of Raúl Scalabrini Ortiz 358
28. Selected Bibliography 367
29. Index 371