Borges as a Public Intellectual
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Borges as a Public Intellectual
The Challenges of Building a Post-Colonial Nation
Literaturwissenschaftliches Jahrbuch, Vol. 63(2022), Iss. 1 : pp. 177–203 | First published online: December 01, 2022
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Edwin Williamson (Oxford)
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Abstract
Jorge Luis Borges is widely regarded as a man who lived in a kind of literary utopia and for whom creative writing was a self-referential game or an ironic »re-writing« of previous texts. Related to this perception is the view that he was indifferent to politics, if not actually a reactionary who in the 1970s supported the repressive military dictatorships in Argentina and Chile. However, this article sets out to demonstrate that Borges was deeply imbued with a sense of history and was, in fact, a public intellectual who spoke out at every major crisis in Argentina’s turbulent and often dangerous politics.
Table of Contents
| Section Title | Page | Action | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Edwin Williamson: Borges as a Public Intellectual. The Challenges of Building a Post-colonial Nation | 177 | ||
| Abstract | 177 | ||
| The Question of National Identity | 178 | ||
| The Mythologizing of Buenos Aires | 180 | ||
| The Década Infame (1932–1943) | 185 | ||
| Borges Against Perón | 189 | ||
| La Revolución Libertadora and Its Aftermath | 194 | ||
| The 1976 coup d’état | 198 | ||
| The Final Years | 200 | ||
| Primary Sources | 202 | ||
| Secondary Sources | 203 |