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Author:
Krauze, Enrique.
Title:
Redeemers : ideas and power in Latin America / Enrique Krauze ; translated by Hank Heifetz and Natasha Wimmer.
Edition:
1st Harper Perennial ed.
Publisher:
Harper Perennial,
Copyright Date:
©2012
Description:
xvi, 538 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Subject:
Intellectuals--Latin America--Biography.
Politicians--Latin America--Biography.
Revolutionaries--Latin America--Biography.
Latin America--Intellectual life--19th century.
Latin America--Intellectual life--20th century.
Latin America--Politics and government--19th century.
Latin America--Politics and government--20th century.
Political science--Latin America--History--19th century.
Political science--Latin America--History--20th century.
Power (Social sciences)--Latin America--History.
Intellectual life.
Intellectuals.
Political science.
Politicians.
Politics and government.
Power (Social sciences)
Revolutionaries.
Latin America.
1800-1999
Biography.
History.
Other Authors:
Heifetz, Hank.
Wimmer, Natasha.
Other Titles:
Redentores. English
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 491-516) and index.
Contents:
José Martí : the martyrdom of the liberator -- José Enrique Rodó : the Hispanic-American homily -- José Vasconcelos : the cultural caudillo -- José Carlos Mariátegui : indigenous Marxism -- Octavio Paz : the poet and the revolution -- Eva Perón : the Madonna of the shirtless ones -- Che Guevara : the saint enraged -- Gabriel García Márquez : in the shadow of the patriarch -- Mario Vargas Llosa : creative parricide -- Samuel Ruiz : the apostle of the Indians -- Subcomandante Marcos : the rise and fall of a guerrillero -- Hugo Chávez : the hero worshiper.
Summary:
Presents the major ideas that have formed the modern Latin American political mind and profiles influential revolutionaries, thinkers, poets, and novelists, from Che Guevara to Octavio Paz and Gabriel García Márquez.
ISBN:
0060938447
9780060938444
Locations:
UQAX771 -- Des Moines Area Community College Library - Ankeny (Des Moines)

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