4.22.26 Ericka Beckman

What Are Cities Made of?  Agrarian Transition and the Latin American Boom

4-530 EST, in English

Drawing from her forthcoming book, titled Agrarian Questions: The Latin American Novel on the Road to Capitalism (Verso, 2026), this talk examines how a set of experimental 1960s novels plotted the massive, epoch-making agrarian transitions that created the modern Latin American city.

Ericka Beckman is Associate Professor of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of Pennsylvania.  In addition to Agrarian Questions, she is author of Capital Fictions: The Literature of  Latin America’s Export Age (U of Minnesota Press, 2013).