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The book frames its argument through structured sections on latifundio landowners and oligarchies, peasant insurgent trajectories, and the changing urban-material conditions of capitalist expansion. Across the chapters, it tracks mediators, rural immiseration, and the prospects of agrarian futures in a twenty-first-century post-agrarian landscape.","Agrarian Questions  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nAgrarian Questions  \nThe Latin American Novel on the Road to Capitalism  \nEricka Beckman  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nFirst published by Verso 2026 © Ericka Beckman 2026  \nAll rights reserved  \nThe manufacturer ’s authorized representative in the EU for product safety (GPSR) is LOGOS EUROPE, 9 rue Nicolas Poussin, 17000, La Rochelle, France  \nContact@logoseurope.eu  \nThe moral rights of the author have been asserted  \nVerso  \nUK: 6 Meard Street, London W1F 0EG  \nUS: 207 East 32nd Street, New York, NY 10016  \n[versobooks.com](versobooks.com)  \nVerso is the imprint of New Left Books  \nISBN-13: 978-1-8367-4339-2  \nISBN-13: 978-1-8367-4341-5 (US EBK)  \nISBN-13: 978-1-8367-4340-8 (UK EBK)  \nBritish Library Cataloguing in Publication Data  \nA catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library  \nLibrary of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data  \nNames: Beckman, Ericka (Associate professor) author  \nTitle: Agrarian questions: the Latin American novel on the road to capitalism / Ericka Beckman. Description: London; New York: Verso, 2026. | Includes bibliographical references and index.  \nIdentifiers: LCCN 2026009827 (print) | LCCN 2026009828 (ebook) | ISBN 9781836743392 paperback | ISBN 9781836743415 ebook  \nSubjects: LCSH: Latin American fiction--History and criticism | Capitalism in literature | Agriculture in literature | LCGFT: Literary criticism  \nClassification: LCC PQ7082.N7 B354 2026 (print) | LCC PQ7082.N7 (ebook)  \nLC record available at [https://lccn.loc.gov/2026009827](https://lccn.loc.gov/2026009827)  \nLC ebook record available at [https://lccn.loc.gov/2026009828](https://lccn.loc.gov/2026009828)  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nContents  \nAcknowledgments  \nIntroduction: Agrarian Questions, Novel Answers  \nI. Landowner Roads  \n1. Whither the Latifundio? Landowner Romance  \n2. How Are Oligarchies Unmade? Landowner Realism  \nII. Vías Campesinas  \n3. How Do Peasants Become (Doubly) Free? The Modern Agrarian Epic  \n4. How Long Can the Peasantry Last? Anti-Epics of Rural Immiseration  \nIII. Capitalism  \n5. What Are Cities Made Of? The Boom’s Vanishing Agrarian Mediators  \nCoda: What’s Left of the Countryside? The Twenty-First-Century PostAgrarian Novel  \nIndex  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nAcknowledgments  \nI have incurred many debts while writing this book. Over the course of several years, comrades in the Marxist Literary Group provided the intellectual sustenance I needed to develop its main ideas. Special thanks goto Bret Benjamin, Beverley Best, Nicholas Brown, Kanishka Chowdhury, Anna Einarsdóttir, Barbara Foley, Neil Larsen, Tom Laughlin, Colleen Lye, Courtney Maloney, Tavid Mulder, Oded Nir, Paul Stasi, and Emilio Sauri. Equal thanks go to my rad transatlantic writing group, composed of Molly Geidel, Christine Okoth, and Myka Tucker-Abramson; their smart questions and unflagging encouragement made it possible to write—and finish. Students in graduate seminars at the University of Pennsylvania helped me hash out readings and arguments. The School of Arts and Sciences at Penn granted me precious leave time for research and writing; my colleagues in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese offered steady institutional and intellectual support.  \nPavel Andrade, Neil Larsen, Joshua Lund, and Michael Niblett gave me generous feedback on the manuscript. One of the origins of this project lies in a conversation about Chilean land reform with my co-conspirator Marcial Godoy-Anativia, who has enabled me at every stage of writing. Iam indebted to Emilio Sauri for encouraging me to frame this book around literary perspective, and for his perceptive comments on the final product. Any remaining shortcomings, are, of course, my own. Rika Chandra, Peter Elmore, Sharae Deckard, Neil Lazarus, and Ignacio Sánchez Prado  \nprovided all kinds of references. Alexander Regier always lent an ear when needed. Maria Gillombardo, Craig Koslofsky, and Car","cbCaioAVxge2viwf","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaioAVxge2viwf","pdf",2841279,4,1,280,"English","en",105,"# Acknowledgments\n# Introduction: Agrarian Questions, Novel Answers\n# I. Landowner Roads\n## Whither the Latifundio? Landowner Romance\n## How Are Oligarchies Unmade? Landowner Realism\n# II. Vías Campesinas\n## How Do Peasants Become (Doubly) Free? The Modern Agrarian Epic\n## How Long Can the Peasantry Last? Anti-Epics of Rural Immiseration\n# III. Capitalism\n## What Are Cities Made Of? The Boom’s Vanishing Agrarian Mediators\n# Coda: What’s Left of the Countryside? 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