{"product_id":"caught-between-the-lines-carlos-riobo-9781496205520","title":"Caught Between the Lines: Captives, Frontiers, and National Identity in Argentine Literature and Art","description":"\u003ci\u003eCaught between the Lines\u003c\/i\u003e examines how the figure of the captive and the notion of borders have been used in Argentine literature and painting to reflect competing notions of national identity from the nineteenth to the twenty-first centuries. Challenging the conventional approach to the nineteenth-century trope of \"civilization versus barbary,\" which was intended to criticize the social and ethnic divisions within Argentina in order to create a homogenous society, Carlos Riobó traces the various versions of colonial captivity legends. He argues convincingly that the historical conditions of the colonial period created an ethnic hybridity--a mestizo or culturally mixed identity--that went against the state compulsion for a racially pure identity. This \u003ci\u003emestizaje\u003c\/i\u003e was signified not only in Argentina's literature but also in its art, and Riobó thus analyzes colonial paintings as well as texts. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eCaught between the Lines\u003c\/i\u003e focuses on borders and \u003ci\u003emestizaje\u003c\/i\u003e (both biological and cultural) as they relate to captives: specifically, how captives have been used to create a national image of Argentina that relies on a logic of separation to justify concepts of national purity and to deny transculturation. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Carlos Riobó\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1496205529\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781496205520\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Nebraska Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/01\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 198\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.01lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.56d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 09\/01\/2019","brand":"Carlos Riobó","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44124132245759,"sku":"9781496205520","price":45.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_b4806e66-04a2-4dde-bd6d-bb00964002b8.jpg?v=1687434936","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/caught-between-the-lines-carlos-riobo-9781496205520","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}