Abstract
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.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 438-452 |
Number of pages | 15 |
Journal | Bulletin of Latin American Research |
Volume | 38 |
Issue number | 4 |
Early online date | 5 Jun 2018 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 1 Sept 2019 |
Research Groups and Themes
- Centre for Material Texts
Keywords
- Bolivarian Revolution
- counter-hegemony
- populism
- publishing
- reading
- Venezuela