Antifascism(s) in Latin America and the Caribbean

From the Margins to the Center

Sandra McGee Deutsch, Jorge A. Nállim

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Year: 2025
• Topic: History
• eBook ISBN:
  9781009522076
• Subtopic: Latin American & Caribbean History
• Index: History

Drawing from the work of experienced scholars across various fields, countries, and periods, this volume is the first book in any language to provide a comprehensive history of antifascisms in Latin America and the Caribbean. It presents antifascism as a multifaceted phenomenon at the intersection of local, national, and transnational processes that is embraced by a variety of actors with differing agendas. Offering an innovative and fundamental contribution to several bodies of scholarship, including history, art, literature, sports, race, gender, and sexuality, it expands the field of antifascist studies by demonstrating the differences and similarities between Latin American and Caribbean movements and actors and their counterparts elsewhere. Multidisciplinary and accessible, the chapters in this volume will engage a broad audience and offer important insights about the rise of right-wing populism today.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half-title
• Title page
• Imprints page
• Dedication
• Table of Contents
• List of Figures
• List of Contributors
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction: (Re)Situating Latin America and the Caribbean within Antifascist Studies
• Chapter 1 ‘‘Lost in Translation’’: Comintern Networks and the Anti-imperialist Roots of Antifascism’s Transnational Culture in the Caribbean Basin, 1924–1945
• Chapter 2 Diego Rivera’s Antifascist Art: From Proletarian Unity to Pan-Americanism
• Chapter 3 ‘‘Fascismo No’’: Uruguayan Antifascist Movements during the 1930s and Early 1940s
• Chapter 4 Women Take Up Arms: Feminism and Antifascism in South America during the Spanish Civil War
• Chapter 5 Reading between the Lines: Antifascism within the Urban Ladina Community in Guatemala City, 1932–1944
• Chapter 6 Applying the Atlantic Charter to the Caribbean Basin: Antifascism and the 1944 Honduran Masacre Sampedrana
• Chapter 7 Local Contexts and Transnational Influences: Antifascism and National Writers’ Associations in Argentina and Chile, 1930s–1940s
• Chapter 8 In Search of Revolutionary Continuity: Antifascism in Post-1959 Cuba
• Chapter 9 Imagining Antifascism: On Resistance and Representations of Gender Dissidence in Brazilian Futebol, 2016–2022
• Bibliography
• Index