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4.22.26 Ericka Beckman

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

4-530 EST, in English

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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).

One response to “4.22.26 Ericka Beckman”

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    almostwinged9d919abb05

    Gah! I will be in a departmental faculty meeting at this time. Sorry to keep missing these events, which look great. Give my regards to Ericka!

    sjt

    Sarah J. Townsend

    Associate Professor of Spanish, Portuguese, and Latin American Studies

    Director of the Latin American Studies Program

    Penn State University, University Park

    Books:

    The Unfinished Art of Theater: Avant-Garde Intellectuals in Mexico and Brazil http://www.nupress.northwestern.edu/content/unfinished-art-theater (Northwestern UP, 2018)

    Stages of Conflict: A Critical Anthology of Latin American Theater and Performancehttps://www.press.umich.edu/230876/stages_of_conflict (U of Michigan P, 2008)

    Forthcoming in June 2026: “Venice in the Jungle: An Archetype of the Urban Amazon.” Article in special issue of Monde(s). Histoires, Espaces, Relations on L’Amazonie: vers une nouvelle histoire globale (ed. Antoine Acker, Danielle Viegas, Patrick Roberts, and Patrícia Vieira) ________________________________

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