ABSTRACT
Eduarda Mansilla's intellectual life was permeated by politics, because she grew up in a political environment, and she was often a French translator for her uncle Juan Manuel de Rosas, who ruled Argentina from 1835 to 1852. She incorporated her political background and knowledge into her works, most notably Recuerdos de Viaje, the first travel narrative written by an Argentinean woman traveling to the United States. Eduarda Mansilla's travels to the United States can be seen as something between voluntary displacement and exile. Mansilla's narrative can be analyzed in light of Aristotle's Rhetoric, especially that of ethos and pathos, as she attempted to convince the reader of her authority as an intellectual woman writer and of Argentina's superior cultural position as a country by comparing the US to France. She inserted her travel narrative into the realm of literary fiction, and she often made references to mythologies, literary figures, and their work.
