Redeemers

by Krauze, Enrique; Heifetz, Hank; Wimmer, Natasha

• ISBN13: 9780066214733
• ISBN10: 0066214734
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2011-08-16
• Publisher: HarperCollins

Summary

An epic intellectual history of Latin America by one of the region's most prominent thinkers In his first book to appear in English since Mexico: Biography in Power, a work which the Wall Street Journal calls “the standard history of postcolonial Mexico,” prize-winning author Enrique Krauze illuminates the evolution of political, social, and philosophical discourses in Latin America. With echoes of Richard Hofstadter and Edmund Wilson, Krauze explores the Latin American intellectual tradition by deftly animating its decisive figures, from Octavio Paz to Che Guevara, Jos Vasconcelos to Hugo Ch vez, and inscribing them upon a vivid landscape of patriotism, opportunism, morality, and avarice-and of love, honor, loyalty, and identity. Redeemers delivers an unparalleled explication of the roots of ideology and action in Latin America today.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. xi
Preface	p. xiii
On the Translation	p. xvii
Four Prophets
José Martí: The Martyrdom of the Liberator	p. 3
José Enrique Rodó: The Hispanic-American Homily	p. 23
José Vasconcelos: The Cultural Caudillo	p. 49
José Carlos Mariátegui: Indigenous Marxism	p. 87
A Man in His Century
Octavio Paz: The Poet and the Revolution	p. 119
Popular Icons
Eva Peró: The Madonna of the Shirtless Ones	p. 273
Che Guevara: The Saint Enraged	p. 293
Politics and the Ovel
Gabriel García Maárquez: In the Shadow of the Patriarch	p. 333
Mario Varga Llosa: Creative Parricide	p. 365
Religion and Rebellion
Samuel Ruiz: The Apostle of the Indians	p. 405
Subcomadante Marcos: The Rise and Fall of a Guerrillero	p. 433
The Postmodern Caudillo
Hugo Chávez: The Hero Worshipper	p. 451
Epilogue	p. 483
Sources	p. 491
Index	p. 517
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