FRONTERAS, ESCRITURA Y NACIÓN EN LA NARRATIVA CONTEMPORÁNEA ARGENTINA SOBRE TIERRA DEL FUEGO/Borders, Writing and Nation in Contemporary Argentine Narrative about Tierra del Fuego

[...]through a narration that avoids problematizing the use of the Spanish language for the writing of history, the indigenous people are made invisible as subjects. 18 Se trata del viaje a Londres impuesto a Jemmy Button, Fuegia Basket, Boat Memory y John Mister (estos son los nombres otorgados a los fueguinos por los ingleses) por FitzRoy en 1830. La liebre de marzo, Joaquín Palabra. 20 "Instead of being indicative of verisimilitude, the photographs signal the process of fictionalization on which the novel is based: a history, a biography, a life, and a name are invented and attributed to a fragment of extratextual reality embodied in the photograph. 23 "The photographs accentuate the difference between past hope, evoked constantly and idealized through evocation, and the present, which is the future of that past, in which idealization is no longer possible, and hope is lost forever" (Perkowska-Álvarez 222).