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The Revolutionary Imagination in the Americas and the Age of Development

The Revolutionary Imagination in the Americas and the Age of Development

Saldaña-Portillo, María Josefina

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Series: Latin America Otherwise

EconomicsGeneral Political ScienceGeneral Racism & Ethnic Studies

ISBN10: 0822331667
ISBN13: 9780822331667
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: Nov 7 2003
Pages: 384
Weight: 1.20
Height: 1.00 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.20
Language: English
In The Revolutionary Imagination in the Americas and the Age of Development, María Josefina Saldaña-Portillo boldly 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 postwar capitalism. Saldaña-Portillo brings the critique of development discourse to bear on such exemplars of revolutionary and resistant political thought and practice as Ernesto Che Guevara, Malcolm X, the Sandinista government of Nicaragua, and the Guatemalan guerrilla resistance. She suggests that for each of these, developmentalist constructions frame the struggle as a heroic movement from unconsciousness to consciousness, from a childlike backwardness toward a disciplined and self-aware maturity.

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