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This volume delivers a comprehensive study of banditry in Latin America and of its cultural representation. In its scope across the continent, looking closely at nations where bandit culture has manifested itself forcefully – Mexico (the subject of the case study), the Hispanic south-west of the United States, Argentina, Brazil, Venezuela and Cuba – it imagines a ‘Golden Age’ of banditry in Latin America from the mid-nineteenth century to the 1940s when so-called ‘social bandits’, an idea first proposed by Eric Hobsbawm and further developed here, flourished. In its content, this work offers the most detailed and wide-ranging study of its kind currently available.

Contents

Introduction: The Idea of a Golden Age of Latin American Banditry 1850-1950
1. The Figure of the Bandit in History, Culture and Social Theory
2. Mexico: The Myth of the Bandit Nation
3. Mexico’s Classic Bandit Narrative: Los de abajo
4. Beyond Mexico I: Bandit Cultures in Latin America
5. Beyond Mexico II: Chicano Bandit Cultures
Conclusion
Introduction: The Idea of a Golden Age of Latin American Banditry 1850-1950
1. The Figure of the Bandit in History, Culture and Social Theory
2. Mexico: The Myth of the Bandit Nation
3. Mexico’s Classic Bandit Narrative: Los de abajo
4. Beyond Mexico I: Bandit Cultures in Latin America
5. Beyond Mexico II: Chicano Bandit Cultures
Conclusion

Sujets

Histoire

South America

Latin America

History

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Publié par	University of Wales Press
Date de parution	02 octobre 2015
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781783163441
Langue	English
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Revolutionaries, Rebels and Robbers

The Golden Age of Banditry in Mexico, Latin America and the Chicano American southwest, 1850-1950

Pascale Baker

IBERIAN AND LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES

Revoutîonarîes, Rebes and Robbers

Series Editors Professor Davîd George (Swansea Unîversîty) Professor Pau Garner (Unîversîty of Leeds)

Editorial Board Davîd Frîer (Unîversîty of Leeds) Lîsa Shaw (Unîversîty of Lîverpoo) Gareth Waters (Swansea Unîversîty) Rob Stone (Swansea Unîversîty) Davîd Gîes (Unîversîty of Vîrgînîa) Catherîne Davîes (Unîversîty of London) Rîchard Cemînson (Unîversîty of Leeds) Duncan Wheeer (Unîversîty of Leeds) Jo Labanyî (New York Unîversîty) Roger Bartra (Instîtuto de Investîgacîones Socîaes, UNAM, Méxîco)

Other titles in the series The Mexîcan Transîtîon: Poîtîcs, Cuture and Democracy în the Twenty-irst Century Roger Bartra Adofo Bîoy Casares: Borges, Fîctîon and Art Kar Posso Barceona: Vîsua Cuture, Space and Power Heena Buffery & Carota Cauied From Sîver Screen to Spanîsh Stage: The Humorîsts of the Madrîd Vanguardîa and Hoywood Fîm Stuart Nîshan Green Modern Argentîne Poetry: Exîe, Dîspacement, Mîgratîon Ben Boîg Cataonîa: Natîona Identîty and Cutura Poîcy Kathryn Cramerî Meanchoy and Cuture: Dîseases of the Sou în Goden Age Spaîn Roger Bartra The Poetîcs of Otherness în Antonîo Machado’s ‘Proverbîos y Cantares’ Nîcoas Fernandez-Medîna

IBERIAN AND LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES

Revoutîonarîes, Rebes and Robbers The Goden Age of Bandîtry în Mexîco, Latîn Amerîca and the Chîcano Amerîcan Southwest, 1850–1950

PASCALE BAKER

UNIVERSITY OF WALES PRESS 2015

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Contents

Serîes Edîtors’ Foreword vî Introductîon: The Idea of a ‘Goden Age’ of Latîn Amerîcan Bandîtry, 1850–1950 1 Chapter 1: The Fîgure of the Bandît în Hîstory, Cuture and Socîa Theory 4 Chapter 2: Mexîco: The Myth of the Bandît Natîon 24 Chapter 3: Mexîco’s Cassîc Bandît Narratîve:Los de abajo61 Chapter 4: Beyond Mexîco I: FromCangaceîrosto Cowboys: Latîn Amerîca’s Bandît Cutures of the Nîneteenth and Eary Twentîeth Centurîes 105 Chapter 5: Beyond Mexîco II: Chîcano Bandît Cutures 158 Concusîon 173 Notes 177 Bîbîography 190 Index 215

Series Editors’ Foreword

Over recent decades the tradîtîona ‘anguages and îteratures’ mode în Spanîsh departments în unîversîtîes în the Unîted Kîngdom has been superseded by a contextua, înterdîscîpînary and ‘area studîes’ approach to the study of the cuture, hîstory, socîety and poîtîcs of the Hîspanîc and Lusophone words – categorîes that extend far beyond the conines of the Iberîan Penînsua, not ony în Latîn Amerîca but aso to Spanîsh-speakîng and Lusophone Afrîca. In response to these dynamîc trends în research prîorîtîes and currîcuum deveopment, thîs serîes îs desîgned to present both dîscîpînary and înterdîscîpînary research wîthîn the genera ied of Iberîan and Latîn Amerîcan Studîes, partîcuary studîes that expore a aspects of Cutura Productîon (înter aîa îterature, im, musîc, dance, sport) în Spanîsh, Portuguese, Basque, Cataan, Gaîcîan and îndîgenous anguages of Latîn Amerîca. The serîes aso aîms to pubîsh research în the Hîstory and Poîtîcs of the Hîspanîc and Lusophone words, at the eve of both the regîon and the natîon-state, as we as on Cutura Studîes that expore the shîftîng terraîns of gender, sexua, racîa and postcoonîa îdentîtîes în those same regîons.

Introduction: The Idea of a ‘Golden Age’ of Latin American Banditry, 1850–1950

Thîs book examînes the cutura hîstory of bandîtry în Latîn Amerîca from 1850 to 1950. It takes these dates because thîs îs the perîod durîng whîch the so-caed socîa bandît, a prototype irst suggested by Erîc Hobsbawm (1969), proîferated on the contînent, certaîny în myth îf not în actua recorded hîstory. Thîs was an era of dramatîc poîtîca and socîa change în Latîn Amerîca, when nîneteenth-century wars of îndependence severed these coonîes from theîr Spanîsh and Portuguese ruers and when the Mexîcan Revoutîon (1910–20), at the start of the twentîeth century, overturned the status quo once agaîn. Durîng thîs perîod bandîts proved to be îdea cutura vehîces through whîch to channe natîonaîsm and the desîre for socîa justîce, whîe, paradoxîcay they were aso cast, accordîng to the poîtîca currents of the tîme, by poîtîcîans, wrîters, artîsts and immakers as dangerous enemîes of these fragîe new natîon states who struck at the fabrîc of socîety and threatened to punge these new countrîes back to a pre-îndependence state of anarchy and barbarîsm. However, whether frîend or foe to the natîon, bandîts and theîr accompanyîng fokore ensured that they were at the heart of popuar cuture în the perîod 1850–1950, makîng thîs very much a Goden Age of Latîn Amerîcan bandîtry. Latîn Amerîca here îs understood not geographîcay but more broady to refer to those areas where Iberîan coonîa cutures took

Revoutîonarîes, Rebes and Robbers

root and where the contemporary postcoonîa sîtuatîon sees a 1 majorîty of Spanîsh-speakers stî îvîng, that îs the Hîspanîc USA. The book focuses on a range of bandît îfe-storîes from the regîon, from a hîstorîca perspectîve, as we as a wîde range of cutura representatîons of whîch the most sîgnîicant are îterary works în whîch the bandît pays a centra roe, wîthLos de abajo, The Underdogs(1915), the cassîc Mexîcan Revoutîon nove by Marîano Azuea, formîng the nuceus of the study. The book aso focuses on fokorîc depîctîons, transmîtted through ora cuture: theîteratura de corde, poetry on a strîng, în Brazî’s northeast; thepayadaor song of the Argentînepampa;the and corrîdo or baad în the Amerîcan Southwest and Mexîco, as these were an împortant means of mythoogîsîng the bandît în popuar dîscourse. The centra argument of the book departs from the stî îngerîng stereotypîca vîew of Mexîco as bandît country and shows how thîs myth has been forged and then extended across Latîn Amerîca such that outaws of varîous types – revoutîonarîes, rebes and robbers – have come to represent the poor, the subatern subject în the Amerîcas not just în the countrîes consîdered but gobay. The Latîn Bandît has as much popuar purchase as the Latîn Lover. Usîng Hobsbawm’s theoretîca engagement wîth bandît hîstorîes as the maîn înteectua framework, the book focuses în partîcuar on the îdea of the nobe bandît, the Robîn Hood igure, because thîs mode can be saîd to cosey appy to the countrîes and regîons în questîon, în partîcuar to the case of revoutîonary Mexîco, whîch has been chosen as a îterary case study. Mexîco’s bandît hîstory and representatîon, peakîng durîng the Revoutîon of 1910–20, foregrounds many of the hamarks of bandît cuture evîdent în the other Latîn Amerîcan natîons featured. These recurrîng features, hîghîghted by the Mexîcan case, învove state repressîon eadîng to communîty îdentîicatîon wîth bandîts, foowed by revoutîonary upheava and a dîssovîng state whereîn the very deinîtîon of the term ‘bandît’ îs burred to become înterchangeabe wîth that of rebe or revoutîonary Rangîng across the Amerîcas în a varîety of approaches, încudîng the detaîed îterary case study ofLos de abajo, what emerges îs the domînantof a Goden Age of Latîn Amerîcan Bandîtry în îdea popuar îmagînatîon as we as în popuar and hîgh cutura forms. However, what aso emerges îs substantîa evîdence that eads to the constant deconstructîon of the nobe bandît myth. For every nobe

Introductîon

bandît there îs a nefarîous other, an outaw of a dîfferent type atogether and thîs myth of Mexîco as a bandît natîon forms the basîs for Chapters 2 and 3. In îdentîfyîng thîs other, thîs book substantîay departs from Hobsbawm’s theorîes. The book aso goes beyond hîs theorîes în îts focus on femae bandîts and în doîng so ît provîdes a correctîve anaysîs of the often overooked roe of women durîng the Mexîcan Revoutîon. Thîs îs crystaîsed în the igure of the bandît a Pîntada înLos de abajo, who, ît îs argued, îs a far more înluentîa character than crîtîca opînîon has prevîousy aowed for. Parts of thîs work are deveoped from prevîousy-pubîshed materîa înVîda Hîspánîca, 38 (The Open Unîversîty, 2008),Buetîn of Hîspanîc Studîes, 89/7 (Lîverpoo Unîversîty Press, 2012), and Tîman Atenburg (ed.),Imagînîng the Mexîcan Revoutîon: Versîons and Vîsîons în Lîterature and Vîsua Cuture(Cambrîdge Schoars Pubîshîng, 2013); I am gratefu to the pubîshers for theîr permîssîon to reproduce.