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Author Dabove, Juan Pablo, author.

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

Publication Info. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2007]
2007

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Description 1 online resource (392 pages).
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Series Illuminations : cultural formations of the Americas
Illuminations (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 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 -- Zarate : banditry, nation, and the experience of the limits -- Martin 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 Ria Frio : banditry, the criminal state, and the critique of Porfirian illusions -- Os sertoes : 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 democratico : banditry and the necessary gendarme (the shadow of the Caudillo I) -- Dona Barbara : banditry and the illusions of modernity (the shadow of the Caudillo II).
Note Description based on print version record.
Subject Latin American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
Brigands and robbers in literature.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Dabove, Juan Pablo. Nightmares of the lettered city : banditry and literature in Latin America, 1816-1929. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2007] x, 381 pages ; 24 cm Illuminations : cultural formations of the Americas 9780822943310 (OCoLC)ocm77476658 (DLC)10905432
ISBN 9780822943310 (cloth : alk. paper)
082294331X (cloth : alk. paper)
9780822959564 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0822959569 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780822973195 (electronic bk.)

 
    
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