Maria Josefina SaldanaPortillo takes discourse studies where it needs to goand where few humanists are able to take it toward an effective interfacingwith polit... » 

Maria Josefina SaldanaPortillo takes discourse studies where it needs to goand where few humanists are able to take it toward an effective interfacingwith political economy and ethnography. The Revolutionary Imagination in theAmericas and the Age of Development sits at the center of the hemisphericparadigm that has been emerging in American Studies. SaldanaPortillo is one ofthe key new architects of that paradigm.Mary Louise Pratt author ofImperial Eyes Travel Writing and Transculturation «