Santa Evita. History, fiction and myth. A narrative from another side

Abstract

In Santa Evita, a narrative in which fiction and the pretended truths of historiography are challenged, Tomás Eloy Martínez uses a wide variety of discourses to re-write and give new life to the mith of Evita Perón. In this intellectual endeavor that combines imagination and historical facts (“real fiction”) Martínez breathes new life into and sheds new light on what had became a stale myth, a “museum piece” of argentinian history, questioning Santa Evita in an effort to give voice to meanings previously silenced.