Recollection of a Provincial Past (Recuerdos de Provincia)

by Sarmiento, Domingo Faustino; Garrels, Elizabeth; Zatz, Asa; Garrels, Elizabeth

• ISBN13: 9780195113693
• ISBN10: 0195113691
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-03-24
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

Domingo Faustino Sarmiento (1811-1888) was Argentina's leading writer, educator, and politician of the nineteenth century, and served as President from 1868 to 1874. Of his several autobiographies, the best-known Recollections of a Provincial Past is one of the indisputable classics of SpanishAmerican literature, as well as one of the earliest autobiographies written in the Americas in Spanish. Written in exile in 1850, the memoirs describe his childhood and adolescence in an Andean province whose customs were still those of a colony. Sarmiento presents his life as the triumph ofcivilization over barbarism; looking back on his youth, he measures his wealth and strength by the accumulation of enriching personal and political experiences. He compares himself to the newly independent Argentina, claiming to be a historically representative individual whose trajectory serves toilluminate contemporary South America.

Author Biography

Elizabeth Garrels is Professor of Spanish and Latin American Studies at Massachussets Institute of Technology and a recognized authority on Sarmiento. Asa Zatz teaches translation at New York University and the City College of New York.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	ix
Editors' General Introduction	xi
Biographical Note on Domingo Faustino Sarmiento	xv
Chronology of Domingo Faustino Sarmiento	xvii
Editor's Note on the Text and Translation	xxxi
Introduction	xxxiii
Bibliography Cited in the Editor's Note and Introduction	lxxv
Select Bibliography	lxxxi
About the Editor and Co-translator	lxxxv
Recollections of a Provincial Past	1	(222)
Editor's Note	223