Nightmares of the lettered city banditry and literature in Latin America, 1816-1929 / Juan Pablo Dabove.
| Author/creator | Dabove, Juan Pablo |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Pittsburgh, PA : University of Pittsburgh Press, |
| Description | x, 381 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| Series | Illuminations : cultural formations of the Americas Illuminations (Pittsburgh, Pa.) ^A594020 |
| 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). |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (p. 333-369) and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2006102642 |
| ISBN | 9780822943310 (cloth : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 082294331X (cloth : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 9780822959564 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 0822959569 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
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