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Collects two of Manara's major works: the historical saga El Gaucho, the second of Manara's epic collaborations with his mentor Hugo Pratt, and Trial by Jury, a series of shorts never before published in the U.S., in which nine of history's most notorious figures undergo a mock trial.

Enrique Rapela (1911- 1978) fue un creador pionero. Conoció bien a los gauchos y los admiró por sus habilidades, sus costumbres, su lealtad. Fue un autodidacta que representó con palabras y dibujos ese mundo fascinante, pero desconocido por muchos. Fue uno de los creadores de la historieta gaucha, con personajes memorables como Cirilo el Audaz, Cirilo el Argentino, El Huinca y Fabián Leyes. Fue asesor artístico de películas gauchescas e ilustrador de varias ediciones del Martín Fierro, entre otros títulos. Los textos de Conozcamos lo nuestro, originalmente aparecidos en tres fascículos, han sido organizados en capítulos y partes temáticas, conservando su estilo y minuciosidad. Junto con las magistrales ilustraciones, conforman una obra única e imperdible que Editorial El Ateneo presenta con orgullo. Edición bilingüe español-inglés. Enrique Rapela (1911-1978) was a true pioneer. He knew the gauchos well and admired them for their skills, their customs, their loyalty. He was an autodidact who represented with words and drawings that world, as facinating as unknown to many. He was one of the creators of the gaucho cartoon, with memorable characters such as Cirilo el Audaz, Cirilo el Argentino, El Huinca and Fabián Leyes. He was an artistic advisor to gaucho films, and he illustrated several editions of Martín Fierro, among other titles. The texts of The Gaucho's Heritage originally appeared in three fascicles and have been organized into chapters and thematic parts, preserving their style and care for details. Together with the masterful illustrations, they make up a unique and must-have work that Editorial El Ateneo proudly presents. Spanish-English edition.

A nineteenth-century protest poem depicts the plight of the Argentine gaucho, driven from the pampas and pressed into military service

In her study of key radio dramas broadcast from 1930 to 1943, Lauren Rea analyses the work of leading exponents of the genre against the wider backdrop of nation-building, intellectual movements and popular culture in Argentina. During the period that has come to be known as the infamous decade, radio serials drew on the Argentine literary canon, with writers such as Héctor Pedro Blomberg and José Andrés González Pulido contributing to the nation-building project as they reinterpreted nineteenth-century Argentina and repackaged it for a 1930s mass audience. Thus, a historical romance set in the tumultuous dictatorship of Juan Manuel de Rosas reveals the conflict between the message transmitted to a mass audience through popular radio drama and the work of historical revisionist intellectuals writing in the 1930s. Transmitted at the same time, González Pulido’s gauchesque series evokes powerful notions of Argentine national identity as it explores the relationship of the gaucho with Argentina’s immigrant population and advocates for the ideal contribution of women and the immigrant population to Argentine nationhood. Rea grounds her study in archival work undertaken at the library of Argentores in Buenos Aires, which holds the only surviving collection of scripts of radio serials from the period. Rea’s book recovers the contribution that these products of popular culture made to the nation-building project as they helped to shape and promote the understanding of Argentine history and cultural identity that is widely held today.