Suggesting that better understanding of conflicts between Anglo and Latin America can come from the study of their contrasting popular fictions, the author compares the traditional attachment in Latin America to government by a strong man-a caudillo-to the diametrically opposed expansionist frontier ideology of the United States-the cowboy-who makes space safe for Anglo colonization.
Suggesting that better understanding of conflicts between Anglo and Latin America can come from the study of their contrasting popular fictions, the author compares the traditional attachment in Latin America to government by a strong man-a caudillo-to the diametrically opposed expansionist frontier ideology of the United States-the cowboy-who makes space safe for Anglo colonization.
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