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Bandit Narratives in Latin America: From Villa to Chávez

Bandit Narratives in Latin America: From Villa to Chávez

Dabove, Juan Pablo

Paperback

Series: Illuminations, Book 74

Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 082296435X
ISBN13: 9780822964353
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Published: Dec 23 2016
Pages: 368
Weight: 1.30
Height: 1.10 Width: 6.00 Depth: 8.90
Language: English
Bandits seem ubiquitous in Latin American culture. Even contemporary actors of violence are framed by narratives that harken back to old images of the rural bandit, either to legitimize or delegitimize violence, or to intervene in larger conflicts within or between nation-states. However, the bandit escapes a straightforward definition, since the same label can apply to the leader of thousands of soldiers (as in the case of Villa) or to the humble highwayman eking out a meager living by waylaying travelers at machete point. Dabove presents the reader not with a definition of the bandit, but with a series of case studies showing how the bandit trope was used in fictional and non-fictional narratives by writers and political leaders, from the Mexican Revolution to the present. By examining cases from Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, Peru, and Venezuela, from Pancho Villa's autobiography to Hugo Chávez's appropriation of his outlaw grandfather, Dabove reveals how bandits function as a symbol to expose the dilemmas or aspirations of cultural and political practices, including literature as a social practice and as an ethical experience.

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