The Revolutionary Imagination in the Americas and the Age of Development

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

List of contents

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

About the author

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

Summary

Argues that crucial twentieth-century revolutionary challenges to colonialism and capitalism in the Americas have failed to resist - and in fact have been constitutively related to - the very developmentalist narratives that have justified and naturalized post-war capitalism.

Product details

• Authors: Maria Josefinasaldana-Portillo, Maria Josefina Saldaana-Portillo, Maria Josefina Saldana-Portillo, María Josefina Saldaña-Portillo
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 07.11.2003
• EAN: 9780822331780
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-3178-0
• No. of pages: 384
• Weight: 680 g
• Series: Latin America Otherwise; Latin America Otherwise: Langu; Latin America Otherwise; Latin America Otherwise: Langu
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Social sciences, law, business > Business > Economics; Süd- und Zentralamerika (inklusive Mexiko), Lateinamerika, Gewalt und Missbrauch in der Gesellschaft, Regionalstudien