Che's travels : the making of a revolutionary in 1950s Latin America
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Che's travels : the making of a revolutionary in 1950s Latin America
Duke University Press, 2010
- : cloth
- : pbk
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
Ernesto "Che" Guevara twice traveled across Latin America in the early 1950s. Based on his accounts of those trips (published in English as The Motorcycle Diaries and Back on the Road), as well as other historical sources, Che's Travels follows Guevara, country by country, from his native Argentina through Chile, Peru, Colombia, and Venezuela, and then from Argentina through Bolivia, Peru, Guatemala, and Mexico. Each essay is focused on a single country and written by an expert in its history. Taken together, the essays shed new light on Che's formative years by analyzing the distinctive societies, histories, politics, and cultures he encountered on these two trips, the ways they affected him, and the ways he represented them in his travelogues. In addition to offering new insights into Guevara, the essays provide a fresh perspective on Latin America's experience of the Cold War and the interplay of nationalism and anti-imperialism in the crucial but relatively understudied 1950s. Assessing Che's legacies in the countries he visited during the two journeys, the contributors examine how he is remembered or memorialized; how he is invoked for political, cultural, and religious purposes; and how perceptions of him affect ideas about the revolutions and counterrevolutions fought in Latin America from the 1960s through the 1980s.Contributors
Malcolm Deas
Paulo Drinot
Eduardo Elena
Judith Ewell
Cindy Forster
Patience A. Schell
Eric Zolov
Ann Zulawski
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments vii
Introduction / Paulo Drinot 1
Point of Departure: Travel and Nationalism in Ernesto Guevara's Argentina / Eduardo Elena
Beauty and Bounty in Che's Chile / Patience A. Schnell
Awaiting the Blood of a Truly Emancipating Revolution: Che Guevara in 1950s Peru / Paulo Drinot
"Putting Up" with Violence: Ernesto Guevara, Guevarismo, and Colombia / Malcolm Deas
Che Guevara and Venezuela: Tourist, Guerrilla Mentor, and Revolutionary Spirit / Judith Ewell
The National Revolution and Bolivia in the 1950s: What Did Che See? / Ann Zulawski
"Not in All of America Can There Be Found a Country as Democratic as This One": Che and Revolution in Guatemala / Cindy Forster
Between Bohemianism and a Revolutionary Rebirth: Che Guevara in Mexico / Eric Zolov
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