Presentation on 20th century Argentine Literature I had to make for my class about the comic strip Mafalda and a few assigned books from the 20th century period.

2. July 17th 1932 – present

3. born in Guaymallén, Mendoza to Spanish parents.

4. His comic strip: Mafalda

5. ran from 1964-1973

7. Examples Dad: "Give me a chocolate bar."Dad: "Mafalda is going to be so happy with this!"Dad: "Guess what I brought you Maf...?"Mafalda: "A TV SET???"Dad: "I never knew chocolate could taste like failure."

8. Man: "Hi, what's your name?"Mafalda: "Mafalda"Man: "How nice. Do you go to school?"Mafalda: "Yes, of course. Do you pay all your taxes?"Mafalda: "He started talking about obligations."

9. Evidence of Mafalda’s Influence In Argentina - coffee mugs, shirts at carnivals - Mafalda plaza in Colegiales - Sculpture of Mafalda in San Telmo A plaza in Angoulème, France named after Mafalda. Gatineau (QC), Canada obtained permission to name a street after Mafalda in 2010. Movement in Argentina to create a Mafalda museum.

10. Discussion Questions Why does Quino use a child, and specifically a girl, as the central character of his comic strip to comment on the social life and current events? Why is the comic strip medium so effective? Can you draw similarities between Mafalda in Argentina and Peanuts (by Charles Schulz) in the US? How were they distinct?

11. Victoria Ocampo Argentine writer; founder and director of literary journal Sur. April 7, 1890 – January 27, 1979 Born into an elite landowning family Home-schooled; Multilingual; visited Europe Opposed Perón’s regime Aristocratic counterpart of Evita

12. Victorian Fathers Victorian Era: Highly patriarchal society Women of upper-class families not allowed outside alone before marriage. Married women and young girls accompanied by maids. Chastity of women was of great importance Double standards for men and women

13. Virginia Woolf Educated and ambitious women needed a ‘room of their own’ 1935 Reform of Civil Code threatened women’s rights Victoria’s conversation with Magistrate. Magistrate’s beliefs: Women belonged in the home Outside world a cauldron of dangers/temptations threatening family Men weaker than women in resisting temptation, law must protect them Women equated to offering fruit of tree of good and evil Legal children to be protected; illegitimate children had bad fate Double standards regarding chastity, virginity Only in 1919 in England, women allowed into workplace Ocampo stands for emancipation of women, ending their treatment as male’s property and bringing them to equal status.

15. Arrived in Buenos Aires 1939

16. Stayed for 24 years

17. Viewed Argentine society with sense of parody and detachment

18. Transformed his thinking about Argentina

19. Originally viewed country as prison

21. Focus on the elite class' view on life

22. Believes elites are more focused on being seen rather than the concert itself

23. Becomes enraged when members of the elite class try to demonstrate interest in the performance

24. “a world in which man adores himself with music is more convincing than a world in which man adores the music itself”

25. Interest of the elite is only an act

27. Argentina has a youthful, aristocratic spirit

28. gains its vibrance from its youth

29. “Only the common people are distinctive. Only the common people are aristocratic. The young people alone are impeccable in every detail.”

30. Believes Argentina has not reached its full potential but has the resources to one day do so

32. Distanced himself from Buenos Aires

33. Focused on the land and people around him

34. Beauty

36. Juxtaposition of images to demonstrate an inner beauty- untouchable by poverty

37. “And this washerwoman dense but with feet of feathers/ almost dancing with her washbowls upon the rug of her life”

38. “And this mother who carries stones from the riverbank until nighttime/ and crushes her life with them, to make the table less poor/ but not her smile, which is everyone's, in an offering composed of jasmine...”

40. Chose exile in 1951 to escape Peronism

41. Focused on class differences

42. Middle class vs. poor masses

44. Brother and sister live in quite serenity

45. Repeated patterns of living- cleaning, cooking, knitting

46. Quietness of the house disturbed by the invading force

47. Brother and sister forced to move to the other side of the house