Book digitized by Google from the library of University of California and uploaded to the Internet Archive by user tpb. Includes bibliographical references (p. 245-260) and index Sarmiento, the gaucho-Bedouin barbarian and the performance of barbarism -- Lugones' El payador and the legacy of Moorish blood -- Hallar and Yaser custom-build the fictions of the nation -- Menem's self-stylization as Arab gaucho -- Euro-Argentine orientalisms, before and after the watershed of immigration -- Arab Argentine re-presentations of the Orient : on the border between history and fiction -- The Arab/Argentine knot, into the 1990's with Morandini's take on Menem -- Discursive copies, discursive differences : the disruption of the performance of Argentine national language and identity -- Another dissonant performance of Argentineness, or provincial Argentine polyphony in the 1960's -- Performing an other tongue : language-based Arab identity and the displacement of 'pure' Arabic