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‘There Can Be No Revolution without Culture’: Reading and Writing in the Bolivarian Revolution
Author(s) -
BROWN KATIE
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
bulletin of latin american research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.24
H-Index - 33
eISSN - 1470-9856
pISSN - 0261-3050
DOI - 10.1111/blar.12785
Subject(s) - anachronism , hegemony , reading (process) , government (linguistics) , cultural revolution , class (philosophy) , political science , sociology , political economy , media studies , law , politics , linguistics , philosophy , epistemology
Under Hugo Chávez's ‘Bolivarian Revolution’, the government made itself present in all stages of literary production, applying the official idea of reading and writing as ‘socialist practices’. The Bolivarian government envisaged a popular counter‐hegemony, courting popular support while delegitimising cultural elites and reinforcing class tensions. Bolivarian cultural policy is anachronistic in an age of global literary markets, while the emphasis on a national collective of writers over internationally promoted representative writers of the revolution is particularly radical.