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Nightmares of the Lettered City : Banditry and Literature in Latin America, 1816-1929.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Illuminations SeriesPublisher: PIttsburgh : University of Pittsburgh Press, 2007Copyright date: ©2007Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (392 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780822973195
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Nightmares of the Lettered CityDDC classification:
  • 860.9/98
LOC classification:
  • PQ7081
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part 1. The Foundation of National Identities: The Bandit as Other -- 1. El periquillo sarniento: Banditry as the Non Plus Ultra -- 2. Facundo: Banditry and the State as Nomadic War Machine -- 3. El Chacho: Banditry and Allegories of Legitimation -- 4. O Cabelleira: Cangaceiros, Sacarocracy, and the Invention of a National Tradition -- 5. El Zarco: Banditry and Foundational Allegories for the Nation-State -- 6. Criminology: Banditry as the Wound of History -- Part II. Between Conservative Nostalgia and Radical Politics: The Bandit as Instrument of Critique -- 7. Astucia: Banditry and Insurgent Utopia -- 8. Zárate: Banditry, Nation, and the Experience of the Limits -- 9. Martín Fierro: Banditry and the Frontiers of the Voice -- 10. Juan Moreira: The Gaucho Malo as Unpopular Hero -- 11. Alma gaucha: The Gaucho Outlaw and the Leviathan -- 12. Los bandidos de Río Frío: Banditry, the Criminal State, and the Critique of Porfirian Illusions -- Part III. The Triumph of the Nation State: The Bandit as Devious Brother and as Suppressed Origin -- 13. Os sertões: Original Banditry and the Crimes of Nations -- 14. La guerra gaucha: Bandit and Founding Father in the Epic of the Nation-State -- 15. Los de abajo: The Feast, the Bandit Gang, the Bola(Revolution and Its Metaphors) -- 16. Cesarismo democrático: Banditry and the Necessary Gendarme (The Shadow of the Caudillo I) -- 17. Doña Bárbara: Banditry and the Illusions of Modernity(The Shadow of the Caudillo II) -- Conclusions: Representational Strategies and Paradigms -- Notes -- References -- Index.
Summary: Winner of the 2010 Kayden Book Award for literary studies.An original study of the popular theme of banditry in works of literature, essays, poetry, and drama, from the early nineteenth century to the 1920s, and banditry's pivotal role during the conceptualization and formation of the Latin American nation-state. While focusing on four crucial countries (Argentina, Mexico, Brazil, and Venezuela), it is the first book to address the depiction of banditry in Latin America as a whole.
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Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part 1. The Foundation of National Identities: The Bandit as Other -- 1. El periquillo sarniento: Banditry as the Non Plus Ultra -- 2. Facundo: Banditry and the State as Nomadic War Machine -- 3. El Chacho: Banditry and Allegories of Legitimation -- 4. O Cabelleira: Cangaceiros, Sacarocracy, and the Invention of a National Tradition -- 5. El Zarco: Banditry and Foundational Allegories for the Nation-State -- 6. Criminology: Banditry as the Wound of History -- Part II. Between Conservative Nostalgia and Radical Politics: The Bandit as Instrument of Critique -- 7. Astucia: Banditry and Insurgent Utopia -- 8. Zárate: Banditry, Nation, and the Experience of the Limits -- 9. Martín Fierro: Banditry and the Frontiers of the Voice -- 10. Juan Moreira: The Gaucho Malo as Unpopular Hero -- 11. Alma gaucha: The Gaucho Outlaw and the Leviathan -- 12. Los bandidos de Río Frío: Banditry, the Criminal State, and the Critique of Porfirian Illusions -- Part III. The Triumph of the Nation State: The Bandit as Devious Brother and as Suppressed Origin -- 13. Os sertões: Original Banditry and the Crimes of Nations -- 14. La guerra gaucha: Bandit and Founding Father in the Epic of the Nation-State -- 15. Los de abajo: The Feast, the Bandit Gang, the Bola(Revolution and Its Metaphors) -- 16. Cesarismo democrático: Banditry and the Necessary Gendarme (The Shadow of the Caudillo I) -- 17. Doña Bárbara: Banditry and the Illusions of Modernity(The Shadow of the Caudillo II) -- Conclusions: Representational Strategies and Paradigms -- Notes -- References -- Index.

Winner of the 2010 Kayden Book Award for literary studies.An original study of the popular theme of banditry in works of literature, essays, poetry, and drama, from the early nineteenth century to the 1920s, and banditry's pivotal role during the conceptualization and formation of the Latin American nation-state. While focusing on four crucial countries (Argentina, Mexico, Brazil, and Venezuela), it is the first book to address the depiction of banditry in Latin America as a whole.

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