File spoon-archives/marxism-international.archive/marxism-international_1998/marxism-international.9803, message 289


From: revcom-AT-hn.pl.net
Date: Fri, 27 Mar 1998 16:12:19
Subject: Re: M-I: On Che


No I don't know anything about it. But that other biography on Che that you
mention might be Jon Lee Anderson's one  "A revolutionary Life" - Bantam
books 1997. I'm part way through it still. Has anyone else on this list
read it?

Andrew.

At 03:27 PM 26/03/98 -0500, you wrote:
>Just a quick note on Che:
>
>I recently saw Jean Franco giving an (excellent) talk on Che--or rather 
>on the use of his image in (mainstream) US and Latin American discourse.  
>Mainly she focused on the three Che biographies (by Jorge Castaneda, 
>Taibo Ignacio II and someone else) that have recently come out in English.
>
>Anyhow, she did a very good critique of these, but by contrast 
>represented an exhibition on Che that's currently (I believe) on in 
>Chicago, though unfortunately I don't know why.
>
>Anyone know what this is or has seen it?
>
>Take care
>
>Jon
>
>Jon Beasley-Murray
>Literature Program
>Duke University
>jpb8-AT-acpub.duke.edu
>http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/~spoons
>
>
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