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Women, Guerrillas, and Love : Understanding War in Central America

Rodriguez, IleanaCarr, Robert(Translated by)
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Women, Guerrillas, and Love was first published in 1996.

Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions. How can literature show us what went awry in the process of liberation, and in the construction of a different, better world?

Ileana Rodriguez pursues this question through a reading of "politically committed" literature—texts produced within the context of Latin American guerrilla movements.

Che Guevara's diary, testimonios by Omar Cabezas and Tomás Borge, novels and short stories by Sergio Ramírez and Arturo Arias: These are among the works Rodriguez examines. Rodriguez seeks to pinpoint the relationship between the collective and woman, and between woman and the nation-state.

Women, Guerrillas, and Love challenges current assumptions about the relationship of gender and sexuality to writing and state building during revolutionary moments.

Employing several theoretical paradigms—Marxism, feminism, deconstruction—these readings take into account the "implosion" of socialist or socialist-like societies responding to the expansion of positivistic cultures.

The book participates in the debate over the subjugation of insolvent nationstates to the mandates of the market, and the consequent substitution of economic master narratives for historical ones.

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0816626278 / 9780816626274
Paperback / softback
15/09/1996
United States
232 pages
152 x 229 mm