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Reclaiming the Political in Latin American History is a collection that embraces a new social and cultural history of Latin America that is not divorced from politics and other arenas of power. True to the intellectual vision of Brazilian historian Emilia Viotti da Costa, one of Latin America's most distinguished scholars, the contributors actively revisit the political-as both a theme of historical analysis and a stance for historical practice-to investigate the ways in which power, agency, and Latin American identity have been transformed over the past few decades.Taking careful stock of the state of historical writing on Latin America, the volume delineates current historiographical frontiers and suggests a series of new approaches that focus on several pivotal themes: the construction of historical narratives and memory; the articulation of class, race, gender, sexuality, and generation; and the historian's involvement in the making of history. Although the book represents a view of the Latin American political that comes primarily from the North, the influence of Viotti da Costa powerfully marks the contributors' engagement with Latin America's past. Featuring a keynote essay by Viotti da Costa herself, the volume's lively North-South encounter embodies incipient trends of hemispheric intellectual convergence.Contributors. Jeffrey L. Gould, Greg Grandin, Daniel James, Gilbert M. Joseph, Thomas Miller Klubock, Mary Ann Mahony, Florencia E. Mallon, Diana Paton, Steve J. Stern, Heidi Tinsman, Emilia Viotti da Costa, Barbara Weinstein

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Publié par

Duke University Press

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25 décembre 2001

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9780822383260

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american encounters/global interactions A series edited by Gilbert M. Joseph and Emily S. Rosenberg

This series aims to stimulate critical perspectives and fresh interpretive frameworks for scholarship on the his-tory of the imposing global presence of the United States. Its primary concerns include the deployment and contestation of power, the construction and decon-struction of cultural and political borders, the ﬂuid meanings of intercultural encounters, and the complex interplay between the global and the local. American En-counters seeks to strengthen dialogue and collaboration between historians of U.S. international relations and area studies specialists. The series encourages scholarship based on multi-archival historical research. At the same time, it supports a recognition of the representational character of all sto-ries about the past and promotes critical inquiry into issues of subjectivity and narrative. In the process, Amer-ican Encounters strives to understand the context in which meanings related to nations, cultures, and politi-cal economy are continually produced, challenged, and reshaped.

Reclaiming the Political in Latin American History

e s s a y s f r o m t h e n o r t h

Duke University Press

Edited by Gilbert M. Joseph

Durham and London 2001

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∫2001 Duke University Press All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America on acid-free paper$ Typeset in Quadraat by Keystone Typesetting, Inc. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data appear on the last printed page of this book.

Contents 

Acknowledgments

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I The Politics of Writing Latin American History

Gilbert M. Joseph,Reclaiming ‘‘the Political’’ at the Turn of the Millennium 3

Emilia Viotti da Costa,New Publics, New Politics, New Histories: From Economic Reductionism to Cultural Reductionism— in Search of Dialectics 17

Steve J. Stern,Between Tragedy and Promise: The Politics of Writing Latin American History in the Late Twentieth Century 32

II The Contestation of Historical Narratives and Memory

Barbara Weinstein,The Decline of the Progressive Planter and the Rise of Subaltern Agency: Shifting Narratives of Slave Emancipation in Brazil 81

Mary Ann Mahony,A Past to Do Justice to the Present: Collective Memory, Historical Representation, and Rule in Bahia’s Cacao Area 102

Je√rey L. Gould,Revolutionary Nationalism and Local Memories in El Salvador 138

III Articulating the Political: The Intersection of Class, Race, Gender, Sexuality, and Generation

Diana Paton,The Flight from the Fields Reconsidered: Gender Ideologies and Women’s Labor After Slavery in Jamaica 175

Greg Grandin,A More Onerous Citizenship: Illness, Race, and Nation in Republican Guatemala 205

Thomas Miller Klubock,Nationalism, Race, and the Politics of Imperialism: Workers and North American Capital in the Chilean Copper Industry 231

Heidi Tinsman,Good Wives, Bad Girls, and Unfaithful Men: Sexual Negotiation and Labor Struggle in Chile’s Agrarian Reform, 1964–73 268

IV Historians and the Making of History

Florencia E. Mallon,Bearing Witness in Hard Times: Ethnography andTestimonioin a Postrevolutionary Age 311

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Daniel James,Afterword: A Final Reﬂection on the Political 355

Contributors

Index

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Acknowledgments 

This collection, a labor of love on the part of the editor and contributors, a√ords us a means of celebrating the distinguished career of our mentor and colleague Emilia Viotti da Costa. The volume originated in the home nagem to Emilia at Yale University over the course of several days in May 1998 on the occasion of her completion of twenty-ﬁve years of service to the university. My ﬁrst debt, then, is to thank Yale’s History Department, Coun-cil on Latin American and Iberian Studies, and Center for International and Area Studies for sponsoring the conference ‘‘Reclaiming ‘the Political’ in Latin American History,’’ and the Kempf Memorial Fund at Yale and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation for providing the lion’s share of funding. Their support enabled us to host thirty of Emilia’s former graduate stu-dents and closest colleagues, who gathered in New Haven not only to honor Emilia’s agenda-setting scholarship and provocative teaching, but for stimulating and often rambunctious debate—with Emilia character-istically leading by example. Her contribution to this volume originally served as the keynote address for the Yale conference in her honor. In addition to the colleagues whose work appears in this volume, we are also extremely grateful to Marjorie Becker, Susan Besse, Nelson Boeira, José Celso de Castro Alves, John French, Seth Garﬁeld, Steven Hahn, Kathleen Higgins, Reeve Huston, Michael Jiménez, Bryan McCann, David Mont-gomery, Muriel Nazzari, Julio Pinto, David Sanders, Stuart Schwartz, James Scott, Sol Serrano, and Peter Winn, whose formal and informal interven cionesin New Haven substantially improved the discussion in these pages. Thanks also go to Nancy Phillips, then senior administrator of the Coun-cil on Latin American Studies, for her deft logistical management of an event that gathered together the members of Emilia’s far-ﬂung intellectual

clan from across the length and breadth of the Americas. Nancy and I were ably assisted by a campus committee of Latin American history doctoral students (two of whom have subsequently graduated and taken up full-time academic positions elsewhere): Seth Garﬁeld (now at the University of Texas, Austin), Bryan McCann (University of Arkansas), David Sanders, Amy Chazkel, José Celso de Castro Alves, Andrew Sackett, and Todd Hartch. As we moved from the conference to the book, I was aided by Barbara Weinstein and Heidi Tinsman in selecting this volume’s ensemble of es-says. (Emilia set the parameters somewhat in requesting that the volume focus on the work of her North American students.) Editorial and clerical costs associated with the preparation of the book were covered by a grant to Yale’s Latin American Council from the William and Flora Hewlett Foun-dation. The manuscript beneﬁted immeasurably from close readings by Brooke Larson and Peter Winn; and the essays by Steve Stern, Heidi Tins-man, and me are much the better for the commentary provided by Cathe-rine LeGrand—and the lively exchange with the audience that ensued—at the panel ‘‘Reclaiming ‘the Political’ in Latin American History’’ during the January 2000 meeting of the American Historical Association. Yale doctoral student J. T. Way provided valuable help in preparing the ﬁnal manuscript. As always, I have been supported at every stage of my editorial work by my editor and dear friend at the Duke University Press, Valerie Millholland.

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I The Politics of Writing Latin American History

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