The Gaucho Genre: A Treatise on the Motherland,Used

The Gaucho Genre: A Treatise on the Motherland,Used

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Hailed when first published in Spanish in 1988 as one of the best contemporary examples of Latin American critical thought, Josefina Ludmers El gnero gauchesco describes the emergence of gaucho poetrywhich uses the voice of the cowboy of the Argentine pampas for political purposesas an urgent encounter of popular and elite tradition, of subaltern and hegemonic discourses. Molly Weigels translation captures the original's daringly innovative literary flavor, making available for the first time in English a book that opened a new arena in Latin American cultural history.By examining the formation of a genre whose origins predated the consolidation of Argentina as a nationstate but that gained significance only after the country's independence, Ludmer elucidates the relationship of literature to the state, as well as the complex positionings of gender within the struggle for independence. She develops a sociological investigation of outsider culture through close textual analyses of works by Hidalgo, Ascasubi, Del Campo, Hernandez, Sarmiento, and Borges. This inquiry culminates in the assertion that language, marked as it is by the collisions of high and low culture, constitutes the central issue of Latin American modernization and modernism. Extensive annotation renders this edition of Ludmer's seminal study easily accessible for a North American audience.The Gaucho Genres farreaching implications will make it valuable reading for a varied audience. While teachers and students of Latin American literature and criticism will find it an important resource, it will also interest those concerned with the processes of nationbuilding or in the complex intersections of dominant and marginal voices.

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