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Book SynopsisArgues 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.
Trade Review“This is an important and strikingly original work on a topic of enormous contemporary importance. By bringing disparate phenomena together and insisting that they may all be analyzed as examples of the unexamined perpetuation of developmentalist narratives in discourses and practices of resistance in the Americas, María Josefina Saldaña-Portillo allows a fresh light to be shed on what appeared to be well-trodden ground.”—James Ferguson, coeditor of
Culture, Power, Place: Explorations in Critical Anthropology"María Josefina Saldaña-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. Saldaña-Portillo is one of the key new architects of that paradigm."—Mary Louise Pratt, author of
Imperial Eyes: Travel Writing and TransculturationTable of ContentsAbout 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
