A superb, enjoyable and very VERY clever book by Ericka Beckman. A highlight to read in 2026! @versobooks.bsky.social @erickabeckman.bsky.social @isanchezprado.bsky.social

"We begin in medias res, along a path traveled by a landowner...." Check out an excerpt from Ch 1 of my new book, Agrarian Questions (@versobooks.bsky.social) on lithub: lithub.com/latin-americ...

Latin America’s Agrarian Novels Chronicled the Birth of a New World

We begin in medias res, along a path traveled by a landowner. In the opening pages of Rómulo Gallegos’s landmark 1929 novel Doña Bárbara, the novel’s protagonist, Santos Luzardo, travels toward his…

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If you are a Latin American literature scholar, you should be reading Beckman's new book. @versobooks.bsky.social

check out this reading group! 🔥

Dennis Hogan@dennismhogan.bsky.social · 2mo ago

This fall, alongside @gavjacobson.bsky.social and @equatormag.bsky.social, I will be moderating a reading group on Mike Davis's Late Victorian Holocausts, which uncovers the role imperialism played in the famines that followed 19th-century El Niño-related droughts. www.equator.org/events/late-...

My book is now officially out with @versobooks.bsky.social ! www.versobooks.com/products/317...

New book alert: My book, _Agrarian Questions: The Latin American Novel on the Road to Capitalism_, will be out with Verso in July. Available for preorder.

Agrarian Questions

Between 1910 and 1970, Latin America experienced a rapid and radical transformation. Rural societies became urban, and peasants found themselves forced into precarious wage labor. The Latin American n...

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