The Return of the Sphinx: State Fetishism and Political Discourse in Peronist Argentina

Authors

  • Alberto Medina

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18441/ibam.3.2003.9.53-64

Keywords:

Peronismo, Representaciones históricas, Historia de Argentina, Ideología y lenguaje

Abstract

Peron’s return to Argentina in 1973 was staged as a masterpiece of political rhetoric. This was the point of departure for a new Argentina built on myths of the past, but Peron was going to become the victim of his own rhetorical success. His virtuosity of the 50s in managing and hiding contradictions behind personal cult is not there anymore. A characterization of the political and rhetorical content of that event is used as the threshold for a study of the political uses of fetishism in Peronist discourse and different “texts” related to it.

Downloads

Issue

Vol. 3 No. 9 (2003)

Section

Articles and Essays

License

 

Publishing in IBEROAMERICANA is free of any charge for authors.

Authors retain the copyright. They transfer the right of first publication as well as the non-exclusive and unlimited right to reproduce and distribute their contribution in the accepted version to the journal.

All contents of this electronic edition under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.