Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Urban Scenarios
Part I: Writing Anxieties
Chapter 1: Fears of Migration and Destitution in Rómulo Gallegos’s Early Fiction (1909–1922)
Chapter 2: Landless Literature and Its Limitations in Teresa de la Parra’s Ifigenia (1924)
Part II: Melodrama at the Margins
Chapter 3: Bucolic Nationalism in La balandra Isabel llegó esta tarde (1950)
Chapter 4: Screening Transitions: Román Chalbaud’s Caín adolescente (1959)
Part III: Criminal Testimonies
Chapter 5: The Penalization of Poverty in Juan Sebastián Aldana’s Retén de Catia (1972)
Chapter 6: The Politics of Delinquency in Ramón Antonio Brizuela’s Soy un delincuente (1974)
Part IV: Polarized Poetics
Chapter 7: A City Divided: Caracas in Verse during the 1980s
Chapter 8: Performance and Protest in José Roberto Duque’s Salsa y control (1996)
Epilogue
Notes
Bibliography
Index