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An intellectual tour de force from one of today's leading critics of Latin American literature and culture, The Corpus Delicti (The Body of Crime) is a manual of crime, a compendium of crime tales, and an extended meditation on the central role of crime in literature, in life, and in the life of the nation.Drawing her examples from canonical texts, popular novels, newspaper serials, and more, Josefina Ludmer captures the wide range of Argentine crime stories and detective fiction from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. She offers more than a mere genre study, examining the...

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...

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...