History of Latin America
Revolution, Populism, Nationalism: A New 'Hundred Years' Begins
Lecture outline
Readings: García Márquez, parts 15-20
To the left: 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.
And as always, links of note:
The massacre of the banana workers in 100 Yrs is modeled after an incident in Ciénaga that occurred in December, 1928.
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 had been an exporter of coffee and sugar in the nineteenth century; in the twentieth, many Latin American countries also proudly exported their 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.
Rubén Darío of Nicaragua's ode "To Roosevelt. "
The Orozco murals painted at Dartmouth College, 1932-34.