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In The Revolutionary Imagination in the Americas and the Age of Development, Mara Josefina SaldaaPortillo boldly argues that crucial twentiethcentury revolutionary challenges to colonialism and capitalism in the Americas have failed to resistand in fact have been constitutively related tothe very developmentalist narratives that have justified and naturalized postwar capitalism. SaldaaPortillo 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 selfaware maturity.Reading governmental reports, memos, and policies, SaldaaPortillo traces the arc of development narratives from its beginnings in the 1944 Bretton Woods conference through its apex during Robert S. McNamara's reign at the World Bank (19681981). She compares these narratives with models of subjectivity and agency embedded in the autobiographical texts of three revolutionary icons of the 1960s and 1970sthose of Che Guevara, Guatemalan insurgent Mario Payeras, and Malcolm Xand the agricultural policy of the Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN). SaldaaPortillo highlights a shared paradigm of a masculinist transformation of the individual requiring the 'transcendence' of ethnic particularity for the good of the nation. While she argues that this model of progress often alienated the very communities targeted by the revolutionaries, she shows how contemporary insurgents such as Rigoberta Mench, the Zapatista movement, and queer Aztln have taken up the radicalism of their predecessors to retheorize revolutionary subjectivity for the twentyfirst century.
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