Bread and Beauty : the Cultural Politics of José Carlos Mariátegui.
- 1st ed.
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- Historical Materialism Book Series ; v.217 .
- Historical Materialism Book Series .
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Chapter 1. Introduction -- 1. Mariátegui's Reception in the English-Speaking World -- 2. Mariátegui in (Mostly) Latin America -- 3. On This Book -- Chapter 2. José Carlos Mariátegui: The Making of a Revolutionary in the Aristocratic Republic -- 1. Lima in the Early 1900s -- 2. Manuel González Prada and the Radicals -- 3. Colónida -- 4. A Sublime Dance -- 5. Turn Left -- 6. A Polemical Exile -- 7. Italy and Gramsci -- 8. Back to Peru and Death -- 9. After-Death and After-Life -- Chapter 3. Mariátegui, Sorel and Myth -- 1. Mariátegui and Sorel -- 2. The Myth in Sorel -- 3. Sorel in Mariátegui -- 4. Rational Irrationalism -- 5. Indigenous Cultures and the Myth -- 6. Conclusion -- Chapter 4. José Carlos Mariátegui: From Race to Culture -- 1. The Peruvian and International Context -- 2. The Discrediting of Racism -- 3. Mariátegui as Anti-racist -- 4. Conclusion -- Chapter 5. Mariátegui's Cosmopolitan Nationalism -- 1. One World Not Three (or Two) -- 2. Making Peru Peruvian -- 3. A Brief Pre-history of Mariátegui's Indigenismo -- 4. Thinking Globally, Writing Locally -- 5. The Nation as Myth -- 6. Conclusion -- Chapter 6. José Carlos Mariátegui and the Politics of Literature -- 1. Art, Revolution and Decadence -- 2. The Absolute in Bergson, Ibérico, and Mariátegui -- 3. Revolutionary Literature and Reality -- 4. On Chaplin -- 5. Literature on Trial -- 6. César Vallejo -- 7. Conclusion -- Chapter 7. José Carlos Mariátegui and the Culture of Politics -- 1. Mariátegui's Anti-politics -- 2. Haya's Impossible Candidacy -- 3. The New Spirit -- 4. The Platform of the Partido Nacionalista Libertador del Peru -- 5. Party Structure -- 6. Caudillismo or/and Fascism -- 7. Partido Socialista -- 8. Popular Fronts -- 9. Conclusion. Chapter 8. Mariátegui and Argentina: Celebrating Buenos Aires, Criticising Communism -- 1. Buenos Aires and Mexico City as Cultural Meridians -- 2. Mestizo Argentina -- 3. Motley Crew -- 4. Defending Marxism -- 5. Defense of Heresy -- 6. Apologia pro vita sua -- 7. Amauta/Sur -- 8. Conclusion -- Chapter 9. Mariátegui and Che: Reflections on and around Walter Salles's The Motorcycle Diaries -- 1. Hugo Pesce as Mediator -- 2. From Mariátegui to Che -- 3. The New Man -- 4. Mariátegui as a Founder of Discursivity -- 5. Conclusion: Mariátegui, Che and Borges -- Chapter 10. Epilogue: A Tale of Two Quijanos -- 1. The 'Reencounter' -- 2. Mode of Production -- 3. Mariátegui's Debates -- 4. Thirty Years Later -- 5. Mariátegui, Anti-Eurocentrism, and Modes of Production -- 6. Alternative Rationality -- 7. Quijano as the Paradigm -- 8. Conclusion: Mariátegui Unplugged -- Bibliography -- Index.
Bread and Beauty is a study of the works and life of José Carlos Mariátegui (1894-1930), the autodidact Peruvian scholar and revolutionary activist frequently considered the most important Latin American Marxist.
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Mariátegui, José Carlos,-1894-1930. Communism-History-Latin America-20th century. Latin America-Politics and government-20th century.