From the Noble Savage to the Noble Revolutionary

Sinopse

Ainda não disponível em português — exibindo a versão em inglês.

The Latin Americans: Their Love-Hate Relationship with the United States is the English-language title of a 1976 book by Venezuelan journalist and author Carlos Rangel, originally published in Spanish as Del buen salvaje al buen revolucionario: Mitos y realidades en América Latina (From Noble Savage to Noble Revolutionary: Myths and Realities in Latin America). The book explores what the author argues are the ideological foundations and cultural reasons for Latin American underdevelopment. The title was changed from its original version for the English edition, published in 1977 by Harcourt Brace Jovanovich under the Kurt Wolff imprint. In a contemporary account in The New York Times, Helen Wolff did not explicitly address this retitling but, as she included Rangel's book on a list of notable publications in the forthcoming catalogue of the imprint, she remarked that its title—The Latin Americans: Their Love-Hate Relationship with the U.S.—represented a fresh and potentially appealing approach for U.S. readers, in contrast with the more accusatory tone of many contemporaneous Latin American works on the United States. The discrepancy in titles has led to occasional confusion regarding the book's content and intent. This has been noted in retrospective commentary, including a 2016 lecture by journalist Russ Dallen marking the book's 40th anniversary at the University of Miami, and in remarks delivered by Carlos J. Rangel at the 2023 launch of the Italian edition published by the Bruno Leoni Institute in Milan. For consistency, this article refers to the book by its abbreviated English title The Latin Americans.

Licença do texto: CC BY-SA 4.0 · Fonte

Detalhes

Tipo

Livro

Criado por

Carlos Rangel