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Facundo Diana Sorensen Goodrich, Facundo and the Construction of Argentine Culture, University of Texas Press, Copyright 1996, 230 pages. ISBN 0292727909.

This paper reviews, analyzes, evaluates and critiques the book Facundo and the Construction of Argentine Culture, by Sorensen Goodrich. This book itself presents an in-depth analysis of the book Facundo or Civilization and Barbarism by Domingo E. Sarmiento, which is a classic text, a book that is said to be the great liberalist text of the 19th century.

Sarmiento's book traces the turbulent personal history of Rosas, which is used as an allegory of the turbulent history of Argentina, all the while arguing from a liberal perspective, of the many and varied benefits of freedom and democracy. Often, throughout Sarmiento's Facundo, this argument for democracy in Argentina is argued most forcibly by letting the barbarism of Facundo speak for itself. Through the quite detailed chronicles of the bloody political and military adventures of Facundo, Sarmiento retells the story of Rosas, and draws for us, his readers, the picture of what it was like in post-Independence Argentina, of what it was like to live without democracy, to live in fear of a dictator. Sarmiento's book therefore opened...

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In Facundo and the Construction of Argentine Culture, Sorensen Goodrich's main thesis is that the various interpretations and readings of Sarmiento's classic text have themselves actually led to the development, and remaking, of Argentine culture.
Through this thesis, Sorensen Goodrich throws new light on the connection between canon formation, and on ideas of nationhood and nation building. This is where the book is particularly strong, and particularly valuable as a way into to the canon of literature connected to this research field: indeed, this is the first book to have located the Sarmiento's classic Facundo in the realm of canon formation and nation-building, and for this achievement, Sorensen…

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