Aesthetics, Politics and Event: Borges’s “El fin,” the Argentine Tradition and Death

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2014

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CR: The New Centennial Review

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This essay takes up the relationship between literary aesthetics and the critique of nationalism in Jorge Luis Borges. I begin with a critical overview of Josefina Ludmer’s genealogy of the gaucho genre and then turn to Borges’s “Elfin,” which by my reading, poses a number of challenges, not only to the ideology of cultural nationalism, but also to Ludmer’s attempts to distinguish between the popular and its aestheticization.

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“Aesthetics, Politics and Event: Borges’s ‘El fin’, the Argentine Tradition and Death.” CR: The New Centennial Review 14:1 (Spring 2014): 25-46.

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