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Title Simón Bolívar : travels and transformations of a cultural icon / edited by Maureen G. Shanahan and Ana María Reyes.

Publication Info. Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2016]

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 273 pages) : illustrations (some color)
Physical Medium polychrome
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Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Bolívar unhinged: an introduction / Maureen G. Shanahan and Ana María Reyes -- Emergence and consolidation in the nineteenth century -- Simón Bolívar's itinerant portraits: visual conquest and the production of an icon / Emily A. Engel -- Dancing with the enemy: diplomacy in the revolutionary era / Juan Francisco Sans -- Bolivarian imagery and racial ideology in early nineteenth-century Cuba / Paul Niell -- Simón Bolívar's centennial anniversary: music for a triumphal parade / Juan de Dios López Maya -- The birth of the myth: the liberals and the cult of Bolívar (1840-1900) / Tomás Straka -- Disruptions and unhingings in the twentieth century -- Bolívar on the operatic stage: enlightenment hero and tyrannical failure / Maureen G. Shanahan -- Centro Simón Bolívar: a symbol of liberation for revolution square in Ljubljana, Slovenia / Tina Potonik -- In bed with dead Bolívar: Beatriz González's case for critical history painting / Ana María Reyes -- El gran dispensador by Manuel Trujillo: the weaknesses of the national hero / Alicia Ríos -- Moving histories: performing Bolívar in Jorge Alí Triana's film Bolívar soy yo (2002) / Armida de la Garza -- Re-anchorings in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries -- The liberator's sword: the most precious relic of the Bolivarian Revolution / Alejandro E. Gómez Pernia -- When the boat comes in: myth, reification, and the changing face of Simón Bolívar in Venezuelan politics and culture / Nicholas Roberts -- Embodiments and disembodiments of the nation, the people, and the state: disputing Bolívar's body, and the uses of Bolivarianism in contemporary Venezuelan politics / Luis Duno-Gottberg.
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Subject Bolívar, Simón, 1783-1830 -- Travel.
Bolívar, Simón, 1783-1830.
Travel.
Heads of state -- South America -- Biography.
Heads of state.
South America.
Generals -- South America -- Biography.
Generals.
South America -- History.
History.
Genre/Form Biographies.
Electronic books.
History.
Biographies.
Added Author Shanahan, Maureen G., editor.
Reyes, Ana María (College teacher), editor.
Other Form: Print version: Simón Bolívar. Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2016] 9780813062624 (DLC) 2015048926 (OCoLC)933863519
ISBN 9780813055978 (electronic book)
0813055970 (electronic book)
9780813051734
0813051738
9780813062624
0813062624
Standard No. 99972759906