“Anne Garland Mahler’s incisive analysis brings to life a history of revolutionary internationalism with profound lessons for today.” - Michael Hardt, author of <i>The Subversive Seventies</i> <br /> <br />“<em>A Wide Net</em> is a powerhouse intellectual history, astonishing in its breadth and brilliant in its critical arguments. Anne Garland Mahler provides in this book the foundations for a necessary history of solidarity and thinking in the Left through careful archival work and bold analytical intervention, unmatched in its ability to tell the history of world culture and world social movements.” - Ignacio M. Sanchez Prado, author of <i>Strategic Occidentalism: On Mexican Fiction, the Neoliberal Book Market, and the Question of World Literature</i>
Introduction. Redes: Politics and Aesthetics in the Extractive Zone 1
I. Weaving a Wide Net: Relational Solidarities and Hemispheric Globalization
1. A Photography of Relation: LADLA, Indigeneity, and Tina Modotti’s Visual Language of Liberation 35
2. Against Latin American Regionalisms: The 1927 Brussels Congress and LADLA’s Hemispheric Globalism 67
3. “Por la igualdad de todos los seres”: Sandalio Junco’s Afro-Latin American Perspective on Black, Immigrant, and Indigenous Struggles 92
4. Relational Poetics: LADLA-Cuba and Regino Pedroso’s Afro-Chinese-Cuban Writing 125
II. Knots in the Net: Ladla’s Limits and Entanglements
5. Ethnic Impersonation and Masculine Erotics: James Sager / Jaime Nevares and LADLA-Puerto Rico 155
6. Hands Off Nicaragua and the Sandino Fantasy: Navigating Nationalism, Internationalism, and Antifascism 184
7. Remembering LADLA: The Caribbean Bureau and the Rise of Latin American Extractive Fictions 218
Epilogue. Twenty-First-Century Redes 247
Acknowledgments 255
Notes 259
Bibliography 319
Index 351