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Bandit Narratives in Latin America - From Villa to Chavez (Paperback)
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Bandit Narratives in Latin America - From Villa to Chavez (Paperback)
Series: Illuminations
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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 Chavez'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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