An interdisciplinary anthology that includes many primary materials never before published in English. Acknowledgments xiii General Introduction 1(14) I. At the Margins of the Empire 15(28) The Deeds of Elal 19(4) Anonymous Going Wild 23(4) Ulderico Schmidt Monsters in Patagonia 27(3) Antonio Pigafetta Women Captives 30(4) Ruy Diaz de Guzman The Jesuit Mission 34(4) Father Strobel A Gaucho Sings the Victories of the Empire 38(2) Juan Baltasar Maciel The First British Invasion 40(3) Mariquita Sanchez de Thompson II. To Build a Nation 43(60) The Revolution 47(19) Tulio Halperin Donghi The Landowners' Petition 66(5) Mariano Moreno The Good Citizen 71(2) Jose de San Martin Women in the Fatherland 73(2) Juana Manuela Gorriti The Caudillo's Order 75(5) Juan Manuel de Rosas Civilization or Barbarism? 80(11) Domingo Faustino Sarmiento Rosas and Washington 91(2) Pedro de Angelis The Black Girl 93(2) Anonymous Immigration as a Means of Progress 95(8) Juan Bautista Alberdi III. Frontiers 103(54) The Slaughterhouse 107(8) Esteban Echeverria Wars of Extermination 115(4) Charles Darwin The Triple Alliance 119(7) Captain Francisco Seeber One Hundred Leagues of Trench 126(7) Alfred Ebelot Gauchos in and out of the State 133(13) Jose Hernandez An Expedition to the Ranquel Indians 146(8) Lucio V. Mansilla Letter to the President 154(3) Chief Manuel Namuncura IV. Splendor and Fin de Siecle 157(58) The Foundation of the National State 161(9) David Vinas The Paris of South America 170(12) James Scobie The Modern Crowd 182(6) Jose Maria Ramos Mejia Making It in America 188(5) Oreste Sola The Jewish Gauchos 193(3) Alberto Gerchunoff The Birth of Tango 196(7) Simon Collier Bourgeois Snakes 203(3) Jose Ingenieros Argentina as Latin American Avant-Garde 206(3) Ruben Dario National Identity in a Cosmopolitan Society 209(6) Leopoldo Lugones V. Modern Times 215(54) Simon Radowitzky 219(12) Osvaldo Bayer The Union Civica Radical 231(20) David Rock Poems to Be Read on a Trolley Car 251(3) Oliverio Girondo Modern Women 254(5) Alfonsina Storni X-Ray of the Pampa 259(4) Ezequiel Martinez Estrada Soccer and Popular Joy 263(3) Roberto Arlt Cambalache 266(3) Enrique Santos Discepolo VI. Populism and New Nationalism 269(72) Peron and the People 273(23) Daniel James Saint Evita 296(8) Tomas Eloy Martinez Ramona's Revenge 304(2) Lino Palacio Funes, the Memorious 306(7) Jorge Luis Borges Victorian Fathers 313(6) Victoria Ocampo The Foreign Gaze 319(5) Witold Gombrowicz Village on the River 324(4) Juan L. Ortiz House Taken Over 328(5) Julio Cortazar Operation Massacre 333(8) Rodolfo Walsh VII. Revolutionary Dreams 341(54) The Latin American Revolution according to ``Che.'' 345(7) Ernesto ``Che'' Guevara Are We All Neurotic? 352(6) Anonymous Tucuman Is Burning 358(6) Maria Teresa Gramuglio Nicolas Rosa The Cordobazo 364(8) Agustin Tosco The Words of Silence 372(3) Alejandra Pizarnik The Muleteer 375(2) Atahualpa Yupanqui Montoneros: Soldiers of Peron 377(9) Richard Gillespie Antirevolutionary Peronism 386(9) Juan Domingo Peron VIII. State Violence 395(78) Modernization and Military Coups 399(22) Guillermo O'Donnell Artificial Respiration 421(8) Ricardo Piglia The Madwomen at the Plaza de Mayo 429(11) Hebe de Bonafini Matilde Sanchez Never Again. National Commission on the Disappearance of Persons 440(8) Still Harboring 448(2) Juan Gelman In a State of Memory 450(7) Tununa Mercado Corpses 457(8) Nestor Perlongher War in the South Atlantic 465(8) Graciela Speranza Fernando Cittadini IX. Democracy and Neoliberalism 473(32) Teaching the Republic 477(4) Raul Alfonsin Living with Inflation 481(6) Osvaldo Soriano Menem: A New Style in Politics 487(8) Vicente Palermo Marcos Novaro The Journalist as the People's Detective 495(5) Horacio Gonzalez Roadblocks, Detours, and Crossroads 500(5) Rodolfo Rabanal X. Argentina in the Age of Globalization: New Citizenships and the Politics of Memory 505(52) We Are All Cursed 509(10) Javier Auyero Soccer and Masculinity 519(6) Eduardo Archetti Amerindian Rights. State Law of Indigenous Rights 525(3) Feminist Awakenings 528(10) Marcela Nari The Children of Death 538(6) Maria Moreno Marta Dillon Active Memory 544(5) Laura Ginsberg Infinity 549(4) Cesar Aira Postmodern Forgetfulness 553(4) Beatriz Sarlo Suggestions for Further Readings 557(8) Acknowledgment of Copyrights 565(6) Index 571