„Myth” and „Legend” of Eva Perón. An Approach Through her Speeches

Abstract

Eva Perón has gained a considerable fame throughout the decades. From key political figure and party sybom, „Evita” has come to be one of the cultural artifacts more closely related to Argentina in a global scale. In that country both the „Lady of Hope” and the movement she belonged to remain a matter of historiographical dispute and, last but not least, a recurrent topic in still ongoing social and political debates. This articles aims to understand in a better way the singular derive of Eva Perón in the discursive and symbolic realms through a brief analysis of the images of her that were formed in the midst of these debates. Finally, it will present a new view on those discussions and on the notoriety of Eva Perón by exploring the ambiguos threads weaved in her public speeches, where feminine liberation, traditional family values and verticalism got along in unstable ways.