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Chapter 1 - The Paraguayan War Imagined

from Part I - Aesthetics of Disorder

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 January 2023

By
Candela Marini
Edited by
Ana Peluffo  and
Ronald Briggs
Ana Peluffo
Affiliation:
University of California, Irvine
Ronald Briggs
Affiliation:
Barnard College, New York
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Summary

José Ignacio Garmendia starts his Memories of the Paraguayan War (1884) with a complaint: “La historia íntima de la Guerra del Paraguay aun [sic] no se ha escrito” [the personal history of the Paraguayan War has not yet been written] (7). Like many other participants in the war, Garmendia is disheartened by a historical portrayal made out of laconic reports and by the lack of histories remembering the anonymous heroes of the war; he laments that they do not even have “un mísero monumento que conmemore tanto sacrificio” [a lousy monument to commemorate so much sacrifice].

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Latin American Literature in Transition 1800–1870 , pp. 19 - 37
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2022

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