History of Latin America
Revolution, Populism, Nationalism

Lecture outline
Readings:Jacoby, The Strange Career, Part 3

Eva Duarte Perón, wife of Juan Perón, defiantly emulated the styles of the upper-class women who scorned her, but attached herself to a wholly different kind of populist Politics. "Evita" died of cancer in 1952.

Colombian author Gabriel García Márquez grew up near an abandoned banana plantation formerly owned by the U.S. United Fruit Company. In 1928, the UFCO asked the Colombian government to put down striking workers. The result was the Ciénaga banana massacre, one of the most infamous events in Colombian (literary) history and García Márquez's novel One Hundred Years of Solitude.

Poet Rubén Darío of Nicaragua's ode "To Roosevelt." (Here, in English)

Gabriela Mistral, the Chilean poet who worked with Haya de la Torre and Vasconcelos in Mexico's revolution-era Ministry of Education, and later won a Nobel Prize for literature. In Spanish and English.

The official APRA website

 

Latin America exported raw products like coffee and sugar in the nineteenth century. In the twentieth, it also proudly exported national arts and culture. The Argentinian tango, Brazilian feijoada, Cuban son--all these became fashionable abroad as well as within the nation in the 1930s and '40s. To the right, a romantic expression of Mexican indigenismo from Diego Rivera.

Carmen Miranda in the international language of movie posters. Here she sings in 1936, 1939, 1941, and 1943

The Orozco murals painted at Dartmouth College, 1932-34.

Communist Yugoslavia's adoption of the Mexican revolutionary corrido
Diego Rivera, “Flower Seller,” 1941. Reproduced in Pete Hamill, Diego Rivera (New York : Harry N. Abrams, 1999)