CLALSIS: Ericka Beckman, Professor of Spanish and Portuguese, will present her new book: "Agrarian Questions: The Latin American Novel on the Road to Capitalism" (2026,Verso)

Please join us on Friday, September 18th for a Center for Latin American and Latinx Studies Internal Speaker series with Ericka Beckman, Professor and Department Chair of Spanish and Portuguese.  She will present her new book: Agrarian Questions: The Latin American Novel on the Road to Capitalism (2026,Verso) 

A highly acclaimed book, Agrarian Questions: The Latin American Novel on the Road to Capitalism (Verso, 2026) examines how the novel captured the tumultuous transition to capitalism during the 20th century and its transformation of urban and rural life.  According to Ignacio M. Sánchez Prado, Professor of Hispanic Studies at Cornell and author of Strategic Occidentalism, says Beckman’s book “[c]onstitutes the most significant study of the relationship between rural decline, capitalism, and the novel in any literary tradition.” Read more at: https://www.versobooks.com/products/3174-agrarian-questions