Figural Conquistadors

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Figural Conquistadors is written by Mark A. Hernández and published by Bucknell University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 083875645X (ISBN 10) and 9780838756454 (ISBN 13).

He demonstrates how these novelists use major and marginal figures to reflect upon the ways that institutional powers invoke episodes from the discovery and conquest to legitimate the present, and also to critique the recent historical past, especially in the case of Uruguay and Argentina, which endured military dictatorships in the 1970s and 1980s."--Jacket.