Dancing Jacobins : : A Venezuelan Genealogy of Latin American Populism / / Rafael Sánchez.

Since independence from Spain, a trope has remained pervasive in Latin America's republican imaginary: that of an endless antagonism pitting civilization against barbarism as irreconcilable poles within which a nation's life unfolds. This book apprehends that trope not just as the phantasm...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Fordham University Press Complete eBook-Package 2016
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Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : Fordham University Press, , [2016]
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Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (408 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Figures
  • Introduction. Populist Governmentality
  • Overture
  • Chapter 1. Archaeologies
  • Chapter 2. Bullying for Independence
  • Chapter 3. Statues and Statutes
  • Chapter 4. Theater for the Masses
  • Chapter 5. Monumental Governmentality
  • Interlude: Dancing Jacobins
  • Chapter 6. The French Repertoire
  • Chapter 7. Scenes of the Imaginary, I
  • Chapter 8. Scenes of the Imaginary, II
  • Chapter 9. The (Bolívarian) People Is in the Army
  • Chapter 10. "In My Image and Likeness"
  • Epilogue. Dancing and the Return of the Crowds
  • Acknowledgments
  • Notes
  • Works Cited
  • Index