Bringing Violence Back to the Forefront. A Review of Juan Pablo Dabove's <em>Nightmares of the Lettered City: Bandits and Literature in Latin America 1816-1929</em> (Pittsburgh: U of Pittsburgh P, 2007)

Authors

  • Miguel A. Fernández Middlebury College

Keywords:

Literature, Criticism, Latin American History

Abstract

In 1991, Doris Sommer published her pathbreaking Foundational Fictions: The National Romances of Latin America. Juan Pablo Dabove’s Nightmares of the Lettered City: Bandits and Literature in Latin America 1816-1929 both challenges and complements Sommer’s well known study, which he criticizes for the lack of theoretical attention paid to violence as an equally important signifier as romance.

Author Biography

Miguel A. Fernández, Middlebury College

Miguel A. Fernández es profesor asociado en el Departamento de Español de Middlebury College. Obtuvo su doctorado en la Universidad Johns Hopkins. Ha publicado varios artículos sobre la literatura y la historia del siglo XIX, con un enfoque en la gauchesca. Es co-director de la revista Decimonónica.

Published

2007-08-01

How to Cite

Fernández, M. A. (2007). Bringing Violence Back to the Forefront. A Review of Juan Pablo Dabove’s <em>Nightmares of the Lettered City: Bandits and Literature in Latin America 1816-1929</em> (Pittsburgh: U of Pittsburgh P, 2007). A Contracorriente: Una Revista De Estudios Latinoamericanos, 5(1), 208–214. Retrieved from https://acontracorriente.chass.ncsu.edu/index.php/acontracorriente/article/view/360

Issue

Section

Reviews: Outlaws and Bandits