This is a “backwoods” history that aims, with gentle irony, to question the usual privileging of “civilization” over “barbarism” that otherwise structures most literary depictions of nineteenth-century Latin America.

By Jon Beasley-Murray, University of British Columbia

00:00 Introduction

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