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Warriors and Scribes by James Dunkerley

Warriors and Scribes

Essays on the History and Politics of Latin America

By James Dunkerley
Series edited by John King

By James Dunkerley
Series edited by John King

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Part of Critical Studies in Latin American Culture

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Feb 17, 2001 | ISBN 9781859842720

Warriors and Scribes by James Dunkerley
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About Warriors and Scribes

Warriors and Scribes opens and closes using the prism of biography to question the framing of Latin American political life from both a northern, Cold War perspective and from the trivializations of postmodernism. An investigation of Jorge Castaneda’s Utopia Disarmed reveals that Latin American politics are eminently transformable beyond the failed nostrums of multilateral organizations and collapsed dictatorships of the 1980s.

In surveying regional relations with the USA since 1800, and taking a wry look at Hollywood’s treatment of Central America under Reagan, Dunkerley points out that Anglo-America has possessed neither a uniform imperialist vocation, nor the consistent capacity to impose it. Two pieces written in the late 1990s – a reappraisal of Latin American Studies since the Cuban Revolution and a survey of the contemporary politics of Bolivia – reflect the author’s concerns with a place that was ‘American’ for half a millennium before the ‘Americanization through globalization’ became a watchword.

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Product Details

Category: Latin American World History

Paperback | $20.00
Published by Verso
Feb 17, 2001 | 216 Pages | 6-1/5 x 9-3/10 | ISBN 9781859842720

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