Simón Bolívar : travels and transformations of a cultural icon / edited by Maureen G. Shanahan and Ana María Reyes. - Gainesville : University Press of Florida, (c)2016. - 1 online resource (xiv, 273 pages) : illustrations (some color)

Includes bibliographies and index.

Bolívar unhinged: an introduction / Emergence and consolidation in the nineteenth century -- Simón Bolívar's itinerant portraits: visual conquest and the production of an icon / Dancing with the enemy: diplomacy in the revolutionary era / Bolivarian imagery and racial ideology in early nineteenth-century Cuba / Simón Bolívar's centennial anniversary: music for a triumphal parade / The birth of the myth: the liberals and the cult of Bolívar (1840-1900) / Disruptions and unhingings in the twentieth century -- Bolívar on the operatic stage: enlightenment hero and tyrannical failure / Centro Simón Bolívar: a symbol of liberation for revolution square in Ljubljana, Slovenia / In bed with dead Bolívar: Beatriz González's case for critical history painting / El gran dispensador by Manuel Trujillo: the weaknesses of the national hero / Moving histories: performing Bolívar in Jorge Alí Triana's film Bolívar soy yo (2002) / Re-anchorings in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries -- The liberator's sword: the most precious relic of the Bolivarian Revolution / When the boat comes in: myth, reification, and the changing face of Simón Bolívar in Venezuelan politics and culture / Embodiments and disembodiments of the nation, the people, and the state: disputing Bolívar's body, and the uses of Bolivarianism in contemporary Venezuelan politics / Maureen G. Shanahan and Ana María Reyes -- Emily A. Engel -- Juan Francisco Sans -- Paul Niell -- Juan de Dios López Maya -- Tomás Straka -- Maureen G. Shanahan -- Tina Potonik -- Ana María Reyes -- Alicia Ríos -- Armida de la Garza -- Alejandro E. Gómez Pernia -- Nicholas Roberts -- Luis Duno-Gottberg.



9780813055978 9780813051734


Heads of state--South America--Biography.
Generals--South America--Biography.


Electronic Books.

F2235 / .S566 2016