{"product_id":"agrarian-questions-isbn-9781836743392","title":"Agrarian Questions","description":"\u003cb\u003eLatin America's agrarian novels didn't just document a revolution, they chronicled the birth of a new world.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBetween 1910 and 1960, Latin America was radically transformed as rural societies became urban and peasants were pushed into precarious wage labor. The Latin American novel became the key witness to this upheaval, revealing capitalism’s violent remaking of the countryside.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAgrarian Questions\u003c\/i\u003e traces how writers from Mexico, Peru, Chile, Argentina, Brazil, and Venezuela portrayed different paths to capitalism, blending folk storytelling with modernist form. Beckman shows how these novels illuminate the reshaping of land and labor—insights that resonate today, as much of the world now lives in urban precarity.Introduction: Agrarian Questions, Novel Answers\u003cbr\u003eChapter One: Wither the Latifundio? Landowner Romance\u003cbr\u003eChapter Two: How Are Oligarchies Unmade? Landowner Realism\u003cbr\u003eChapter Three: How do Peasants Become (Doubly) Free? Modern Agrarian Epic\u003cbr\u003eChapter Four : How Long Can the Peasantry Last? Anti-Epics of Rural Immiseration\u003cbr\u003eChapter Five: What Are Cities Made of? The Boom’s Vanishing Agrarian Mediators\u003cbr\u003eCoda: What’s Left of the Countryside? The 21st-Century Post-Agrarian NovelEricka Beckman teaches at the University of Pennsylvania.  She is author of \u003ci\u003eCapital Fictions:  The Literature of Latin America’s Export Age.\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"Verso","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48232911503589,"sku":"NP9781836743392","price":34.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781836743392.jpg?v=1773168150","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/agrarian-questions-isbn-9781836743392","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}