| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 108.5

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Book Review

Caribbean and Latin America

Gilbert M. Joseph, editor. Reclaiming the Political in Latin American History: Essays from the North. (American Encounters/Global Interactions.) Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press. 2001. Pp. viii, 379. Cloth $59.95, paper $19.95.

This volume celebrates Emília Viotti da Costa's monumental influence on the practice of Latin American history in the United States. Drawing together a variety of historiographical and original research chapters produced by Viotti da Costa's colleagues and former students, the work moves beyond mere festschrift to provide an overview, demonstration, and critique of recent trends in Latin American history. The collection's most compelling feature is its tension between mentor and students: while Viotti da Costa here repeats her criticisms of the "new historiography," her students advocate such trends, shaping race and gender-conscious historical narratives that explore how politics and power operate historically. Despite such tensions, the contributors agree wholeheartedly with their mentor: good historical writing overcomes the dichotomy between materialist and discursive analysis through an integrative method that "open[s] new paths to a much-needed synthesis" (p. 18). This volume constitutes a kind of testimony to the selective incorporation of postmodernist paradigms in recent historical writing and offers cogent explanations of the political and intellectual currents in which such writing has been grounded.

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