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| Title: | Intellectuals & Left Politics in Uruguay, 1958-2006
: Frustrated Dialogue |
| Author: | Stephen Gregory |
| ISBN: | 1845192656 : 9781845192655 |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Size: | 152x229mm |
| Pages: | 256 |
| Published: | Sussex Academic Press - February 2009 |
| List Price: | 55 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: | Not yet published |
| Subjects: | POLITICS & GOVERNMENT: Uruguay |
Beginning in the year Uruguayans elected a different party into government for the first time in nearly a century, the author examines intellectuals' role in the Uruguayan left’s drive toward unity and effectiveness. Discussion focuses on fragmentation and impotence on the left; frustrated attempts at left unity in the 1960s; the creation of the centre-left Broad Front in 1971; and the defeat of all left endeavours and all dialogue in the 1973 military coup -- a prelude to a twelve-year dictatorship in which the military substituted themselves for intellectuals. The story continues in 1985, reversing the earlier trend in a record of dispersal and diversity. The author details the initial post-authoritarian anarchic cultural outburst -- part celebration, part frustration; intellectuals’ role in the disputes that accompanied the Broad Front’s move from democratic socialism to social democracy, and from opposition to government in 2004; and recent excursions into the long-standing Uruguayan obsession with its identity and viability as an independent nation. This book is essential reading for all those interested in interplay between intellectuals and politics in Latin America; changes in the Latin American left since the 1960s; and the leftward drift of elected governments in the Southern Cone.
