Latin American Identity Formation

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This paper presents an analysis of how Ruben Dario's poem "To Roosevelt" and the music and dance form known as "tango" are representative of the Latin American struggle to forge an identity.

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"If the history of Latin America can be described as a search for a viable identity, then without doubt two expressions of that identity come in the form of Ruben Dario's poem "To Roosevelt" and the dance and music form known as tango. Having won independence from, Spain having survived an umber of civil wars and having to contend with its increasingly powerful neighbor to the north, Latin Americans continued to struggle to formulate a viable identity. Because of both internal and external oppression..."

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