Abstract
In approaching the cultural production of any urban area, it is important for the student of cultural studies to reference the essential ideologemes held by the inhabitants of that area, the grounding imaginaries through which they organize, customarily in an unconscious fashion, an understanding of their lived human experience, although it is not uncommon for those imaginaries to be overtly articulated as signposts of collective identity. Jorge Luis Borges (1899–1986), who wrote quite a bit about Buenos Aires (despite rather silly allegations from doctrinaire leftists in the 1950s and 1960s that he had no sympathy for his native land), wrote his “Mythical Founding” early in his career, anchoring it on the square block where the family home of the time stood in the old Palermo quarter near the river.
Hard to believe Buenos Aires had any beginning.
I feel it to be as eternal as air and water. (Jorge Luis Borges, Mythical Founding of Buenos Aires)
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William Foster, D. (2016). Buenos Aires. In: Tambling, J. (eds) The Palgrave Handbook of Literature and the City. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-54911-2_29
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