Simón Bolívar – Travels and Transformations of a Cultural Icon Shanahan Reyes

Simn BolvarTravels and Transformations of a Cultural Icon\nAuthor(s): Maureen G. Shanahan, Ana Maria Reyes\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: University Press of Florida, United States\nImprint: University Press of Florida\nISBN-13: 9780813054490, 978-0813054490\nSynopsis\nOne of Latin Americas most famous historical figures, Simn Bolvar has become a mythic symbol for many nations, empires, and revolutions used to support wildly diversesometimes oppositeideas. From colonial Cuba to Nazi-occupied France to Cold Warera Slovenia, the image of El Libertador has variously signified loyalty, national unity, liberation, freedom, and revolt.\n\n In this volume, an array of international and interdisciplinary scholars shows the ways Bolvar has appeared over the last two centuries in painting, fiction, poetry, music, film, festival, dance, city planning, and even reliquary adoration. They illustrate how Bolvars body has been exalted, reimagined, or fragmented in different contexts, taking on a ran.