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. "

Carmen Miranda in the international language of movie posters.

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

Communist Yugoslavia's adoption of the Mexican revolutionary corrido
Diego Rivera, “Flower Seller,” 1941. Oil on canvas, Private Collection. Reproduced in Pete Hamill, Diego Rivera (New York : Harry N. Abrams, 1999), p.186.