Abstract
This article examines the three short stories about infamous Americans in Jorge Luis Borges' Historia universal de la Infamia (1935): "El atroz redentor Lazarus Morell", "El proveedor de iniquidades Monk Eastman" and "El asesino desinteresado Bill Harrigan". Through an analysis of the English-language works cited as sources by Borges, as well as the Argentine tradition alluded to throughout the Historia, I argue that the Argentine writer not only offers a critical reading of Anglo-American history but also the antinomies that defined Latinamericanist ideologies at the end of the nineteenth century and beginning of the twentieth.
| Translated title of the contribution | Political geometry and post-humanist reading in historia universal de la infamia |
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| Original language | Spanish |
| Pages (from-to) | 29-46 |
| Number of pages | 18 |
| Journal | Taller de Letras |
| Issue number | 58 |
| State | Published - 2016 |