Bolvars Afterlife in the Americas: Biography, Ideology, and the Public Sphere [Hardcover]

Sim?n Bol?var is the preeminent symbol of Latin America and the subject of seemingly endless posthumous attention. Interpreted and reinterpreted in biographies, histories, political writings, speeches, and works of art and fiction, he has been a vehicle for public discourse for the past two centuries. Robert T. Conn follows the afterlives of Bol?var across the Americas, tracing his presence in a range of competing but interlocking national stories. How have historians, writers, statesmen, filmmakers, and institutions reworked his life and writings to make cultural and political claims? How has his legacy been interpreted in the countries whose territories he liberated, as well as in those where his importance is symbolic, such as the United States? In answering these questions, Conn illuminates the history of nation building and hemispheric globalism in the Americas.

1. An Introduction.- 2. Toward a Usable Narrative.- 3. Bol?var in Nineteenth-Century Venezuela.- 4. Jos? Marti and Venezuela: Redressing Bolivarian Doctrine.- 5. From Liberalism to Positivism: Gil Fortoul and Vallenilla Lanz.- 6. Rufino Blanco Fombona: An Exile in Spain.- 7. The Construction of a Patrician Heritage and of Calumny: Vicente Lecuna, La Casa Natal, El Archivo del Libertador, and the Bolivarian Society.- 8. Revising the Bolivarian Machine: A Venezuela Reclaimed by New Intellectuals.- 9. Pan Americanism Above Ground: Bol?var in the United States.- 10. A Rebirth.- 11. Bol?var in the Wake of World War II: Gerhard Masur and Waldo Frank.- 12. The Bol?var-Santander Polemic in Colombia: Germ?n Arciniegas and Gabriel Garc?a M?rquez.- 13. Bol?var and Sucre in Ecuador: A Case of Two Assassinations.- 14. Vasconcelos as Screenwriter: Bol?var Remembered.- 15. Bol?var in Bolivia: On Fathers and Creators.- 16. Institution Building in Peru: Ricardo Palma and V?ctor Andr?s Bela?nde.- 17. Bol?var in the R?o de la Plata.- 18. Epilogue.

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