Includes bibliographical references (p. [173]-183) and index.
Contents
Introduction : Dominant poses, iconoclastic gestures -- Bolivar and the emergence of a national religion -- Monumentalism and the erotics of national degeneration -- The promise of Bolivarian paternity -- "A whore in the palace" : The poetics of pornodetraction -- Solitude, signs, and power in The General in his labyrinth -- Afterword: Bolivarian self-fashioning into the twenty-first century.