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Luigi Patruno
Luigi Patruno is a visiting assistant professor in the Spanish Department at the College of the Holy Cross, MA. His first book Relatos de regreso. Ensayos sobre la obra de Juan José Saer (Beatriz Viterbo, 2015) analyses the way travel narratives undermine the sense of national identity projected onto the territory imagined as home. He is currently working on a book manuscript entitled Staging the Masses. Urban Culture and the Making of ‘el pueblo’ in Perón’s Argentina, which studies how, during the Peronist decade in Argentina, depictions of mass assemblies in public spaces and intellectual discourses about ‘the people’ became the ground for political legitimacy, marking a new phase in the hegemonization of the social sphere.
Contact: Department of Spanish, College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, MA 01610, USA.