The Gaucho Genre - A Treatise on the Motherland

"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

About the author

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