Gaucho Genre , livre ebook

284

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English

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2002

Écrit par
Ludmer Josefina Ludmer ,
traduit par Weigel Molly Weigel

Publié par
Duke University Press

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Date de parution

08 juillet 2002

EAN13

9780822383567

Langue

English

Hailed when first published in Spanish in 1988 as one of the best contemporary examples of Latin American critical thought, Josefina Ludmer's El genero gauchesco 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. Molly Weigel's 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 nation-state 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 Genre's far-reaching 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 nation-building or in the complex intersections of dominant and marginal voices.

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Publié par

Duke University Press

Date de parution

08 juillet 2002

EAN13

9780822383567

Langue

English

Spanish

The Gaucho Genre

A Treatise on the Motherland

Joseﬁna Ludmer

t r an s l at e d by mol l y w e ig e l

Duke University Press

Durham and London 2002

© Duke University Press All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America on acid-free paper  Typeset in Adobe Minion by G&S Typesetters, Inc. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data appear on the last printed page of this book.

In memory of my father.

For my son.

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 Objects1

I. On the Side of Use

The two chains

Laws

Wars

xvii

Sarmiento and the words of exterior space The heart of the historic space of the genre

The word “gaucho” in the voice of the gaucho: the interior space An exercise with the dictionary 18

First outline of the genre

The top and bottom margins of the genre Literary revolutions and two deﬁnitions of the gaucho as Argentine man 29

Hidalgo’s transparency is the distribution of voices

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

“A small preliminary cruise toward a reconnaissance of the Joyce archipelago”77 On the island: a study on montage77

La ida,technical details and notes

The laments (on the side of the gift)

The patriotic singer’s challenge

The ﬁrst ﬁesta of the monster

Inside the internal space of the genre

Borges before the law

184

2. Challenge and Lament, the Intonations of the Motherland

113

154

Two more challenges with throat-cutting

189

209

201

138

199

138

121

114

The separation of intonations inEvaristo Carriego

Intonations and codes in Borges

The challenges of the thug

109

170

184

162

The challenges (on the side of use)

And four formulas for the intonations

The logic of the singer

The preludes or the code of the intonations

Four deﬁnitions of the genre and its internal space

3. In the Inferno’s Paradise The ArgentineFausto A Pastiche of Literary Criticism

109

107

Lament of the learned patriot

129

111

4. Pact and Motherland The Trickery of Hernández’s Professor’sCurandera

The book of the pact

231

Penitence in the margins: two incorrigibles

233

229

A national language lesson and a game with institutions

External inclusions

Internal exclusions

Who educates

A review

242

233

238

The word /voice (of ) “Picardía” and the literature of the future

Index

261

233

252

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