Posthegemonic Comments
Please please please blog more often!
Aguirre, thanks for the encouragement!
After having just watched "Madeinusa," I was grateful to find this illuminating argument, so sensitive to the formal details of the story and also its underlying complexity. As I was watching it, I began to feel this kind of guilt rising up within me, wondering if the movie was, indeed, going to end on the sour note of "those people in the highlands are barbarians," b/c I was enjoying it so much. But the way the author of this blog places the movie in relation to Sendero Luminoso, and the overall failure of a "hegemonic connection" between the coast and highland (whether in the form of Christianity, caciquismo, or chic neoliberalism) makes for a very compelling reading. If you liked Madeinusa, I would suggest the Mexican film "Santo Luzbel" and the Cuban film "La última cena," which treat similar themes but in very different ways. I'm tempted to show "Madeinusa" in my class on the baroque next quarter, and I think this essay will help me. Thanks a lot for the intellectual work!
Laclau???? How about Gramsci????
Jody, thanks for the kind words.
Malaika, you might want to read this, including the linked pdf file.
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