SOURCE: Ramos, Julio. “The Other's Knowledge: Writing and Orality in Sarmiento's Facundo.” In Divergent Modernities: Culture and Politics in Nineteenth-Century Latin America, translated by John D. Blanco, pp. 3-22. Durham: Duke University Press, 2001.
In the following essay, originally published in 1989, Ramos asserts that the heterogeneity and undisciplined nature of Facundo actually represents an attempt to have writing bring order to the political and social chaos of newly liberated Argentina.
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