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Record Nr.

UNINA9910777987403321

Autore

Saldaña-Portillo María Josefina <1961->

Titolo

The revolutionary imagination in the Americas and the age of development [[electronic resource] /] / María Josefina Saldaña-Portillo

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Durham, : Duke University Press, 2003

ISBN

1-282-92096-0

9786612920967

0-8223-8524-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (382 p.)

Collana

Latin America otherwise

Disciplina

338.98

Soggetti

Revolutions - Latin America

Economic development

Latin America Economic policy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [339]-356) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; About the Series; Acknowledgments; Part I; 1 Introduction; 2 Development and Revolution: Narratives ofLiberation and Regimes of Subjectivity inthe Postwar Period; Part II; 3 The Authorized Subjects of Revolution: Ernesto''Che'' Guevara and Mario Payeras; 4 Irresistible Seduction: Rural Subjectivity underSandinista Agricultural Policy; Part III; 5 Reiterations of the Revolutionary ''I'': Menchúand the Performance of Subaltern Conciencia; 6 The Politics of Silence: Development and Difference in Zapatismo

7 Epilogue Toward an American ''American Studies'':Postrevolutionary Reflections on Malcolm X andthe New AztlánNotes; Works Cited; Index

Sommario/riassunto

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