Agrarian Questions

“A landmark work of literary economy and a fascinating dive into how the power of Latin American fiction emerged out of the combined and uneven development and misery of rural Latin America. Beckman’s prose is politically alive, illuminating both Latin America’s literary traditions and its capitalist development.”
—Greg Grandin, author of America, América

“Constitutes the most significant study of the relationship between rural decline, capitalism, and the novel form in any literary tradition.”
—Ignacio M. Sánchez Prado, author of Strategic Occidentalism

“If I had to pick one book to pair with Mike Davis’s Planet of Slums for the twenty-first-century sequel to Raymond Williams’s The Country and the City, it would undoubtedly be Beckman’s Agrarian Questions.”
—Colleen Lye, coeditor of After Marx

“Ericka Beckman once again makes evident the richness of literary studies and its relevance for historical and contemporary analysis of our global geopolitical order.”
—María Josefina Saldaña-Portillo, author of Indian Given

“With Agrarian Questions, Ericka Beckman is proven to be one of the foremost representatives of a tradition of historical-materialist Latin Americanist scholarship and criticism.”
—Neil Larsen, author of Determinations