The Gaucho Genre

"Ludmer deals in a highly original way with the constitution of a genre--she comments and parodies, reflects and self-reflects. Erudite without being pompous, "The Gaucho Genre" constitutes an invigorating force."--Jean Franco, Columbia University

Josefina Ludmer is Professor of Latin American Literature in the Department of Spanish and Portugese at Yale University.

Prologue to the second Spanish edition

xi

Acknowledgments: On the Side of the Gift

xvii

The Body of the Genre and Its Borders Essay toward the Construction of a Context and a System of Objects

1

(2)

I. On the Side of Use

3

(74)

The two chains

5

(72)

Laws

5

(1)

Wars

6

(3)

Sarmiento and the words of exterior space

The heart of the historic space of the genre

9

(9)

The word ``gaucho'' in the voice of the gaucho: the interior space

An exercise with the dictionary

18

(7)

First outline of the genre

25

(4)

The top and bottom margins of the genre

Literary revolutions and two definitions of the gaucho as Argentine man

29

(15)

Hidalgo's transparency is the distribution of voices

44

(33)

II. On the Side of the Master, on the Side of the Gift

77

(184)

``A small preliminary cruise toward a reconnaissance of the Joyce archipelago''

77

(1)

On the island: a study on montage

77

(30)

Challenge and Lament, the Intonations of the Motherland

107

(92)

Inside the internal space of the genre

109

(4)

Four definitions of the genre and its internal space

109

(2)

And four formulas for the intonations

111

(2)

The preludes or the code of the intonations

113

(25)

The patriotic singer's challenge

114

(7)

Lament of the learned patriot

121

(8)

The logic of the singer

129

(9)

The challenges (on the side of use)

138

(32)

The first fiesta of the monster

138

(16)

Two more challenges with throat-cutting

154

(8)

The challenges of the thug

162

(8)

The laments (on the side of the gift)

170

(14)

La ida, technical details and notes

170

(14)

Intonations and codes in Borges

184

(15)

The separation of intonations in Evaristo Carriego

184

(5)

Borges before the law

189

(10)

In the Inferno's Paradise The Argentine Fausto A Pastiche of Literary Criticism

199

(30)

I

201

(8)

II

209

(20)

Pact and Motherland The Trickery of Hernandez's Professor's Curandera

229

(32)

The book of the pact

231

(2)

Penitence in the margins: two incorrigibles

233

(9)

A national language lesson and a game with institutions

233

(1)

External inclusions

233

(5)

Internal exclusions

238

(4)

Who educates

242

(19)

A review

242

(10)

The word/voice (of) ``Picardia'' and the literature of the future

252

(9)

Index

261

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