Includes bibliographical references (pages [557]-564) and index.
The Deeds of Elal / Anonymous -- Going Wild / Ulderico Schmidt -- Monsters in Patagonia / Antonio Pigafetta -- Women Captives / Ruy Diaz de Guzman -- The Jesuit Mission / Father Strobel -- A Gaucho Sings the Victories of the Empire / Juan Baltasar Maciel -- The First British Invasion / Mariquita Sanchez de Thompson -- The Revolution / Tulio Halperin Donghi -- The Landowners' Petition / Mariano Moreno -- The Good Citizen / Jose de San Martin -- Women in the Fatherland / Juana Manuela Gorriti -- The Caudillo's Order / Juan Manuel de Rosas -- Civilization or Barbarism? / Domingo Faustino Sarmiento -- Rosas and Washington / Pedro de Angelis -- The Black Girl / Anonymous -- Immigration as a Means of Progress / Juan Bautista Alberdi -- The Slaughterhouse / Esteban Echeverria -- Wars of Extermination / Charles Darwin -- The Triple Alliance / Francisco Seeber -- One Hundred Leagues of Trench / Alfred Ebelot -- Gauchos in and out of the State / Jose Hernandez -- An Expedition to the Ranquel Indians / Lucio V. Mansilla -- Letter to the President / Manuel Namuncura -- The Foundation of the National State / David Vinas -- The Paris of South America / James Scobie -- The Modern Crowd / Jose Maria Ramos Mejia -- Making It in America / Oreste Sola -- The Jewish Gauchos / Alberto Gerchunoff -- The Birth of Tango / Simon Collier -- Bourgeois Snakes / Jose Ingenieros -- Argentina as Latin American Avant-Garde / Ruben Dario -- National Identity in a Cosmopolitan Society / Leopoldo Lugones -- Simon Radowitzky / Osvaldo Bayer -- The Union Civica Radical / David Rock -- Poems to Be Read on a Trolley Car / Oliverio Girondo -- Modern Women / Alfonsina Storni -- X-Ray of the Pampa / Ezequiel Martinez Estrada -- Soccer and Popular Joy / Roberto Arlt -- Cambalache / Enrique Santos Discepolo -- Peron and the People / Daniel James -- Saint Evita / Tomas Eloy Martinez -- Ramona's Revenge / Lino Palacio -- Funes, the Memorious / Jorge Luis Borges -- Victorian Fathers / Victoria Ocampo -- The Foreign Gaze / Witold Gombrowicz -- Village on the River / Juan L. Ortiz -- House Taken Over / Julio Cortazar -- Operation Massacre / Rodolfo Walsh -- The Latin American Revolution according to "Che" / Ernesto "Che" Guevara -- Are We All Neurotic? / Anonymous -- Tucuman Is Burning / Maria Teresa Gramuglio and Nicolas Rosa -- The Cordobazo / Agustin Tosco -- The Words of Silence / Alejandra Pizarnik -- The Muleteer / Atahualpa Yupanqui -- Montoneros: Soldiers of Peron / Richard Gillespie -- Antirevolutionary Peronism / Juan Domingo Peron -- Modernization and Military Coups / Guillermo O'Donnell -- Artificial Respiration / Ricardo Piglia -- The Madwomen at the Plaza de Mayo / Hebe de Bonafini and Matilde Sanchez -- Never Again / National Commission on the Disappearance of Persons -- Still Harboring / Juan Gelman -- In a State of Memory / Tununa Mercado -- Corpses / Nestor Perlongher -- War in the South Atlantic / Graciela Speranza and Fernando Cittadini -- Teaching the Republic / Raul Alfonsin -- Living with Inflation / Osvaldo Soriano -- Menem: A New Style in Politics / Vicente Palermo and Marcos Novaro -- The Journalist as the People's Detective / Horacio Gonzalez -- Roadblocks, Detours and Crossroads / Rodolfo Rabanal -- We Are All Cursed / Javier Auyero -- Soccer and Masculinity / Eduardo Archetti -- Amerindian Rights / State Law of Indigenous Rights -- Feminist Awakenings / Marcela Nari -- The Children of Death / Maria Moreno and Marta Dillon -- Active Memory / Laura Ginsberg -- Infinity / Cesar Aira -- Postmodern Forgetfulness / Beatriz Sarlo