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Book SynopsisTrade Review“This is by far the best piece of scholarship I have read on the subject of the Mexican picaresque, and that includes the book I wrote on the subject. It includes brilliant re-evaluations of many classic picaresque narratives from Mexico but also includes equally brilliant analyses of more recent narratives.” —Timothy G. Compton, author of Mexican Picaresque Narratives
"This smart, spirited book is more than a monograph with one bright idea. Readers across fields in the humanities will find leads and provocations informed by big thinkers beyond the inevitable Ångel Rama. . . . The book is rich in ideas about how literature is produced and about picaresque narratives as ‘fictions of liberation from the labor process’ that are yet basically conservative in outlook." —Hispanic American Historical Review
Table of ContentsIntroduction
1. Genealogies
2. Value
3. Colonialism
4. Bodies
Epilogue: National Literatures, Global Contexts
