María Josefina Saldaña-Portillo

The Revolutionary Imagination in the Americas and the Age of Development

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Produktbeschreibung

How revolutionary movements in the Americas mirror the language and styles of their opponents who favor traditional development.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 384
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. November 2003
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 160mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 667g
• ISBN-13: 9780822331780
• ISBN-10: 0822331780
• Artikelnr.: 21198395

Autorenporträt

María Josefina Saldaña-Portillo is Associate Professor in the English Department and Ethnic Studies Program at Brown University.

Inhaltsangabe

About the Series ix
Acknowledgments xi
Part I
1. Introduction 3
2. Development and Revolution: Narratives of Liberation and Regimes of
Subjectivity in the Postwar Period 17
Part II
3. The Authorized Subjects of Revolution: Ernesto "Che" Guevara and Mario
Payeras 63
4. Irresistible Seduction: Rural Subjectivity under Sandinista Agricultural
Policy 109
Part III
5. Reiterations of the Revolutionary "I": Menchú and the Performance of
Subaltern Conciencia 151
6. The Politics of Silence: Development and Difference in Zapatismo 191
7. Epilogue. Toward an American "American Studies": Postrevolutionary
Reflections on Malcolm X and the New Aztlán 259
Notes 291
Works Cited 339
Index 357