Nightmares of the lettered city: banditry and literature in Latin America, 1816-1929

El periquillo sarniento : banditry as the non plus ultra

Facundo : banditry and the state as nomadic war machine

El chacho : banditry and allegories of legitimation

O cabelleira : cangaceiros, sacarocracy, and the invention of a national tradition

El zarco : banditry and foundational allegories for the nation-state

Criminology : banditry as the wound of history

Astucia : banditry and insurgent utopia

Zárate : banditry, nation, and the experience of the limits

Martín Fierro : banditry and the frontiers of the voice

Juan Moreira : the gaucho malo as unpopular hero

Alma gaucha : the gaucho outlaw and the leviathan

Los bandidos de Ría Frío : banditry, the criminal state, and the critique of Porfirian illusions

Os sertões : original banditry and the crimes of nations

La guerra gaucha : bandit and founding father in the epic of the nation-state

Los de abajo : the feast, the bandit gang, the bola (revolution and its metaphors)

Cesarismo democrático : banditry and the necessary gendarme (the shadow of the Caudillo I)

Doña Bárbara : banditry and the illusions of modernity (the shadow of the Caudillo II).