TY - BOOK AU - Graham-Jones,Jean TI - Evita, inevitably: performing Argentina's female icons before and after Eva Perón AV - HQ1532 .G73 2014eb U1 - 305.40982 23 PY - 2014///] CY - Ann Arbor PB - The University of Michigan Press KW - Perón, Eva, KW - Women in popular culture KW - Argentina KW - Performing arts KW - Social aspects KW - Celebrities KW - Electronic books N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Evita at the intersections of Argentine femiconicity, nation, and performance -- Camila O'Gorman and the making of an Argentine femicon -- The (many, many) lives of Evita Perón -- Performing Evita's afterlives -- Argentine Madonnas, pop stars, and performances of immediacy and virtuality -- Conclusion: Toward a complicated understanding of Eva Perón and Argentine femiconity in performance N2 - Sheds new light on the history and culture of Argentina by examining the performances and reception of the country's most iconic female figures, in particular, Eva Perón, who rose from poverty to become a powerful international figure. The book links the Evita legend to a broader pattern of female iconicity from the mid-nineteenth century onward ... --Provided by publisher UR - http://site.ebrary.com/lib/daystar/Doc?id=11000819 ER -