Revolutionary Imagination in the Americas and the Age of Development

Informationen zum Autor María Josefina Saldaña-Portillo is Associate Professor in the English Department and Ethnic Studies Program at Brown University. Klappentext "Maria Josefina Saldana-Portillo takes discourse studies where it needs to go and where few humanists are able to take it: toward an effective interfacing with political economy and ethnography." The Revolutionary Imagination in the Americas and the Age of Development" sits at the center of the hemispheric paradigm that has been emerging in American Studies. Saldana-Portillo is one of the key new architects of that paradigm."--Mary Louise Pratt, author of" Imperial Eyes: Travel Writing and Transculturation" Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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

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• Authors: Maria Josefinasaldana-Portillo, Maria Josefina Saldaana-Portillo, Maria Josefina Saldana-Portillo, María Josefina Saldaña-Portillo
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 07.11.2003
• EAN: 9780822331667
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-3166-7
• No. of pages: 384
• Series: Latin America Otherwise; Latin America Otherwise: Langu; Latin America Otherwise
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Social sciences, law, business > Business > Economics; Business / Economics / Finance, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Development / Economic Development