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The Gaucho Genre - A Treatise on the Motherland

English · Hardback

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"Ludmer deals in a highly original way with the constitution of a genre--she comments and parodies, reflects and self-reflects. Erudite without being pompous, "The Gaucho Genre" constitutes an invigorating force."--Jean Franco, Columbia University

List of contents










Prologue to the second Spanish edition

Acknowledgments: On the Side of the Gift

1. The Body of the Genre and Its Borders: Essay toward the Construction of a Context and a System of Objects

I. On the Side of Use

II. On the Side of the Master, on the Side of the Gift

2. Challenge and Lament, the Intonations of the Motherland

3. In the Inferno’s Paradise

The Argentine Fausto

A Pastiche of Literary Criticism

4. Pact and Motherland

The Trickery of Hernández’s Professor’s Curandera

Index

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Josefina Ludmer

Summary

Describes the emergence of gaucho poetry - which uses the voice of the cowboy of the Argentine pampas for political purposes - as an urgent encounter of popular and elite tradition, of subaltern and hegemonic discourses.

Product details

Authors Josefina Ludmer, Ludmer, Josefina Ludmer
Assisted by Molly Weigel (Translation)
Publisher Duke University Press
 
Languages English
Product format Hardback
Released 08.07.2002
 
EAN 9780822328308
ISBN 978-0-8223-2830-8
No. of pages 288
Weight 680 g
Subjects Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies

Spanisch, Literaturwissenschaft: Lyrik und Dichter

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