TY  - JOUR
AV  - none
TI  - El heroísmo en la farsa: Las Islas, de Carlos Gamerro
VL  - 5
Y1  - 2012///
ID  - heidok13859
JF  - HeLix - Dossiers zur romanischen Literaturwissenschaft
KW  - Literaturwissenschaft; Kulturwissenschaft
KW  -  Carlos Gamerro; hero; farce; Falkland Wars
SP  - 145
A1  - Jacovkis, Vera Helena
EP  - 162
UR  - https://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/helix/article/view/9325
N2  - Fictional treatments of the Falklands War tend to subvert the typical ?Nationalist Story? ( ?el Gran Relato Argentino?) by deconstructing the nationalist myths that serve to create a common identity. By undermining the ?epic narrative,? these works question the ?war hero? figure, who embodies the country?s values. In place of the war hero, these works present instead rogues and anti-heroes. Carlos Gamerro?s Las Islas, however, goes further, mixing farce in with war drama. In this sense, the novel also formulates the possibility of deconstructing the traditional heroes, the protagonists of the epics, replacing it not with an empty space but with the depiction of a new kind of heroism, one that emerges from the farce and attempts to rewrite the image of the Argentine soldiers that fought in the war.
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