eprintid: 13859
rev_number: 3
eprint_status: archive
userid: 1
dir: disk0/00/01/38/59
datestamp: 2012-11-27 11:42:20
lastmod: 2019-06-14 11:29:40
status_changed: 2012-11-27 11:42:20
type: article
metadata_visibility: show
creators_name: Jacovkis, Vera Helena
title: El heroísmo en la farsa: Las Islas, de Carlos Gamerro
ispublished: pub
subjects: ddc-840
keywords: Literaturwissenschaft; Kulturwissenschaft, Carlos Gamerro; hero; farce; Falkland Wars
abstract: 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.
date: 2012
date_type: published
id_scheme: DOI
id_number: 10.11588/heidok.00013859
official_url: https://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/helix/article/view/9325
ppn_swb: 1446099121
own_urn: urn:nbn:de:bsz:16-opus-138598
language: spa
bibsort: JACOVKISVEELHEROISMO2012
full_text_status: none
publication: HeLix - Dossiers zur romanischen Literaturwissenschaft
volume: 5
pagerange: 145-162
citation:   Jacovkis, Vera Helena  (2012) El heroísmo en la farsa: Las Islas, de Carlos Gamerro.  HeLix - Dossiers zur romanischen Literaturwissenschaft, 5.  pp. 145-162.