Nightmares of the lettered city : banditry and literature in Latin America, 1816-1929 / Juan Pablo Dabove.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Illuminations (Pittsburgh, Pa.)Publisher: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2007]Copyright date: ©2007Description: 1 online resource (392 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780822973195 (e-book)
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Nightmares of the lettered city : banditry and literature in Latin America, 1816-1929.DDC classification:
  • 860.9/98 22
LOC classification:
  • PQ7081 .D2155 2007eb
Online resources:
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).
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 333-369) and index.

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).

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