Nightmares of the lettered city : banditry and literature in Latin America, 1816-1929 /
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| Language: | English |
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Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania :
University of Pittsburgh Press,
[2007]
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| Series: | Illuminations (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
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Table of 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).