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Bolívar’s Afterlife in the Americas

Biography, Ideology, and the Public Sphere

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  1. Robert T. Conn

    1. Wesleyan University, Middletown, USA

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  • Examines the afterlives of Simón Bolívar in the Americas, focusing on Venezuela, Colombia, the United States, Peru, Ecuador, Bolivia, Argentina, Mexico, and Cuba

  • Studies Bolívar as a rich site for questions of political and cultural identity, nationalism, race, and governance

  • Appeals to scholars and students of Latin American history, culture, and politics

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Table of contents (18 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. An Introduction

    • Robert T. Conn
    Pages 1-52

  3. Toward a Usable Narrative

    • Robert T. Conn
    Pages 53-75

  4. Bolívar in Nineteenth-Century Venezuela

    • Robert T. Conn
    Pages 77-97

  5. José Martí and Venezuela: Redressing Bolivarian Doctrine

    • Robert T. Conn
    Pages 99-118

  6. From Liberalism to Positivism: Gil Fortoul and Vallenilla Lanz

    • Robert T. Conn
    Pages 119-154

  7. Rufino Blanco Fombona: An Exile in Spain

    • Robert T. Conn
    Pages 155-169

  8. The Construction of a Patrician Heritage and of Calumny: Vicente Lecuna, La Casa Natal, El Archivo del Libertador, and the Bolivarian Society

    • Robert T. Conn
    Pages 171-200

  9. Revising the Bolivarian Machine: A Venezuela Reclaimed by New Intellectuals

    • Robert T. Conn
    Pages 201-226

  10. Pan Americanism Above Ground: Bolívar in the United States

    • Robert T. Conn
    Pages 227-254

  11. A Rebirth

    • Robert T. Conn
    Pages 255-279

  12. Bolívar in the Wake of World War II: Gerhard Masur and Waldo Frank

    • Robert T. Conn
    Pages 281-301

  13. The Bolívar-Santander Polemic in Colombia: Germán Arciniegas and Gabriel García Márquez

    • Robert T. Conn
    Pages 303-348

  14. Bolívar and Sucre in Ecuador: A Case of Two Assassinations

    • Robert T. Conn
    Pages 349-370

  15. Vasconcelos as Screenwriter: Bolívar Remembered

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    Pages 371-396

  16. Bolívar in Bolivia: On Fathers and Creators

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    Pages 397-421

  17. Institution Building in Peru: Ricardo Palma and Víctor Andrés Belaúnde

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    Pages 423-442

  18. Bolívar in the Río de la Plata

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    Pages 443-468

  19. Epilogue

    • Robert T. Conn
    Pages 469-485

  20. Back Matter

    Pages 487-525
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About this book

Simón Bolívar 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 Bolívar 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.

Reviews

“Bolívar’s Afterlife in the Americas offers a rewarding and erudite overview of the political narratives that have framed politics in the region since liberation. It also serves as a warning: Read historical biographies with care.” (Oliver Balch, Americas Quarterly, January 13, 2020)

Authors and Affiliations

  • Wesleyan University, Middletown, USA

    Robert T. Conn

About the author

Robert T. Conn is Professor of Spanish and Latin American Studies at Wesleyan University. He is the author of The Politics of Philology: Alfonso Reyes and the Invention of the Latin American Literary Tradition. 

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Bolívar’s Afterlife in the Americas

  • Book Subtitle: Biography, Ideology, and the Public Sphere

  • Authors: Robert T. Conn

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-26218-1

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: History, History (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2020

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-26217-4Published: 02 April 2020

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-26220-4Published: 26 August 2021

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-26218-1Published: 01 April 2020

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: X, 525

  • Topics: Latin American History, Intellectual Studies, Cultural History, Political History

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