The Revolutionary Imagination in the Americas and the Age of Development (English, María Josefina Saldaña-Portillo)

Product description Review "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 Transculturation"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 From the Back Cover "Maria Josefina Saldana-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. Saldana-Portillo is one of the key new architects of that paradigm."--Mary Louise Pratt, author of" Imperial Eyes: Travel Writing and Transculturation" About the Author María Josefina Saldaña-Portillo is Associate Professor in the English Department and Ethnic Studies Program at Brown University. Read more