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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.

Revolutionary Imagination in the Americas and the Age

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