Hailed when first published in Spanish in 1988 as one of the best contemporary examples of Latin American critical thought, Josefina Ludmer’s El género gauch

Shortlisted for the International Booker Prize 2020 1872. The pampas of Argentina. China is a young woman eking out an existence in a remote gaucho encampment.

A nineteenth-century protest poem depicts the plight of the Argentine gaucho, driven from the pampas and pressed into military service

Volume 1 of a comprehensive three-volume history of Latin American literature (including Brazilian): the only work of its kind.