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) 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographies and index. 
<br/><br/>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. 
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<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780813055978 9780813051734 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Heads of state--South America--Biography.<br/>Generals--South America--Biography.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic Books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>F2235  / .S566 2016