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...

Eugenio Cambaceres was the first to introduce the naturalist manner of Emile Zola to Argentinean literature in the late nineteenth century. The work of Cambaceres, a precursor to the contemporary Argentinean novel, is crucial for an understanding of the period of consolidation of Argentina, the formation of a national identity, and especially for the role of the intellectual during that transition. This gereation theoretically and methodically built up a literature with features of its own, stressing the cultural primacy of Buenos Aires par excellence, to enhance the evolution of the...