Includes bibliographical references (p. [173]-183) and index.
Contents:
Introduction : Dominant poses, iconoclastic gestures -- Bolívar and the emergence of a national religion -- Monumentalism and the erotics of national degeneration -- The promise of Bolivarian paternity -- "A whore in the palace" : The poetics of pornodetraction -- Solitude, signs, and power in The General in his labyrinth -- Afterword: Bolivarian self-fashioning into the twenty-first century.
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