{"product_id":"the-revolutionary-imagination-in-the-americas-and-the-age-of-development-9780822331667","title":"The Revolutionary Imagination in the Americas and","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eArgues 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“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 \u003ci\u003eCulture, Power, Place: Explorations in Critical Anthropology\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"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.\u003ci\u003e The Revolutionary Imagination in the Americas and the Age of Development\u003c\/i\u003e 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\u003ci\u003e Imperial Eyes: Travel Writing and Transculturation\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAbout the Series ix\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments xi\u003cbr\u003e Part I \u003cbr\u003e 1. Introduction 3\u003cbr\u003e 2. Development and Revolution: Narratives of Liberation and Regimes of Subjectivity in the Postwar Period 17\u003cbr\u003e Part II \u003cbr\u003e 3. The Authorized Subjects of Revolution: Ernesto \"Che\" Guevara and Mario Payeras 63\u003cbr\u003e 4. Irresistible Seduction: Rural Subjectivity under Sandinista Agricultural Policy 109\u003cbr\u003e Part III \u003cbr\u003e 5. Reiterations of the Revolutionary \"I\": Menchú and the Performance of Subaltern \u003ci\u003eConciencia\u003c\/i\u003e 151\u003cbr\u003e 6. The Politics of Silence: Development and Difference in Zapatismo 191\u003cbr\u003e 7. Epilogue. Toward an American \"American Studies\": Postrevolutionary Reflections on Malcolm X and the New Aztlán 259\u003cbr\u003e Notes 291\u003cbr\u003e Works Cited 339\u003cbr\u003e Index 357","brand":"MD - Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49963668111703,"sku":"9780822331667","price":27.9,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780822331667.jpg?v=1739085555","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-revolutionary-imagination-in-the-americas-and-the-age-of-development-9780822331667","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}