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Agrarian questions : the Latin American novel on the road to capitalism / Ericka Beckman.
Loaned to Another Library PQ7082.N7 B354 2026
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Beckman, Ericka (Associate professor), Author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Latin American fiction--History and criticism.
- Latin American fiction.
- Capitalism in literature.
- Agriculture in literature.
- Genre:
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Literary criticism
- Literary criticism.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 247 pages ; 24 cm
- Other Title:
- Latin American novel on the road to capitalism
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : Verso, 2026.
- Summary:
- "Agrarian Questions traces how writers from Mexico, Peru, Chile, Argentina, Brazil, and Venezuela portrayed different paths to capitalism, blending folk storytelling with modernist form. Beckman shows how these novels illuminate the reshaping of land and labor-insights that resonate today, as much of the world now lives in urban precarity"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Introduction: Agrarian questions, novel answers
- Whither the latifundio? Landowner romance
- How are oligarchies unmade? Landowner realism
- How do peasants become (doubly) free? The modern agrarian epic
- How long can the peasantry last? Anti-epics of rural immiseration
- What are cities made of? The boom's vanishing agrarian mediators
- Coda: What's left of the countryside? The twenty-first-century post-agrarian novel.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- Online version Beckman, Ericka (Associate professor) Agrarian questions
- ebook version :
- ISBN:
- 9781836743392
- 1836743394
- OCLC:
- 1576242507
- Publisher Number:
- CIPO000388019
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