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Nightmares of the lettered city : banditry and literature in Latin America, 1816-1929

Title
Nightmares of the lettered city : banditry and literature in Latin America, 1816-1929 / Juan Pablo Dabove.
Author
Dabove, Juan Pablo.
Publication
Pittsburgh, PA : University of Pittsburgh Press, c2007.
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Description
x, 381 p.; 24 cm.
Series Statement
Illuminations : cultural formations of the Americas
Uniform Title
Illuminations (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
Subject
  • Latin American literature > 20th century > History and criticism
  • Brigands and robbers in literature
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 333-369) and index.
Contents
El periquillo sarniento : banditry as the non plus ultra -- Facundo : banditry and the state as nomadic war machine -- El chacho : banditry and allegories of legitimation -- O cabelleira : cangaceiros, sacarocracy, and the invention of a national tradition -- El zarco : banditry and foundational allegories for the nation-state -- Criminology : banditry as the wound of history -- Astucia : banditry and insurgent utopia -- Zárate : banditry, nation, and the experience of the limits -- Martín Fierro : banditry and the frontiers of the voice -- Juan Moreira : the gaucho malo as unpopular hero -- Alma gaucha : the gaucho outlaw and the leviathan -- Los bandidos de Ría Frío : banditry, the criminal state, and the critique of Porfirian illusions -- Os sertões : original banditry and the crimes of nations -- La guerra gaucha : bandit and founding father in the epic of the nation-state -- Los de abajo : the feast, the bandit gang, the bola (revolution and its metaphors) -- Cesarismo democrático : banditry and the necessary gendarme (the shadow of the Caudillo I) -- Doña Bárbara : banditry and the illusions of modernity (the shadow of the Caudillo II).
Call Number
JFE 07-5354
ISBN
  • 9780822943310 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 082294331X (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 9780822959564 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 0822959569 (pbk. : alk. paper)
LCCN
2006102642
OCLC
77476658
Author
Dabove, Juan Pablo.
Title
Nightmares of the lettered city : banditry and literature in Latin America, 1816-1929 / Juan Pablo Dabove.
Imprint
Pittsburgh, PA : University of Pittsburgh Press, c2007.
Series
Illuminations : cultural formations of the Americas
Illuminations (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. 333-369) and index.
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