Revolutionary Imagination in the Americas and the Age

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.

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": Menchu 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 Aztlan 259 Notes 291 Works Cited 339 Index 357