Christina Civantos is Assistant Professor of Languages and Literatures at the University of Miami.

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Preface

INTRODUCTION Interwoven Histories, Interwoven Identities

PART I The Arab Gaucho: Historical Fictions and Fictional Histories

1. Sarmiento: The Gaucho-Bedouin Barbarian and the Performance of Barbarism

2. Lugones's El Payador and the Legacy of Moorish Blood

3. Hallar and Yaser Custom-Build the Fictions of the Nation

Coda: Menem's Self-Stylization as Arab Gaucho

Part II Writing the Orient to Write the Self

4. Euro-Argentine Orientalisms, before and after the Watershed of Immigration

5. Arab Argentine Re-Presentations of the Orient: On the Border between History and Fiction

Coda: The Arab/Argentine Knot, into the 1990s with Morandini's Take on Menem

Part III Performing Mother Tongues: Language, Morals, and National Affiliation in the Formation of Arab Argentine Identities

6. Discursive Copies, Discursive Differences: The Disruption of the Performance of Argentine National Language and Identity

7. Another Dissonant Performance of Argentineness: Provincial Argentine Polyphony in the 1960s

8. Performing an Other Tongue: Language-Based Arab Identity and the Displacement of Pure Arabic

IN CLOSING The Immigrant and the Orient in Literary and Cultural Studies

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