Book description
On October 1, 1920, the city of Santiago, Chile, came to a halt as tens of thousands stopped work and their daily activities to join the funeral procession of Jose Domingo Gomez Rojas, a 24 year old university student and acclaimed poet. Nicknamed "the firecracker poet" for his incendiary poems,âŚ
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Craibâs Renegade uses a biographical approach to explore larger cultural and transnational politicsâthis time in early twentieth-century Chile. Again, migrationâso crucial to the history of Latin American anarchismâplays a central role in understanding the multinational dimensions of anarchism in countries across the region. Craib uses the life and death of the anarchist poet Domingo GĂłmez Rojas, along with his friends and comrades, to explore the Chilean anarchists and their relations with student rebels. The book illustrates how anarchists in Chile created urban âtransnational communitiesâ of anarchists born in Santiago, anarchists who moved to the capital, and anarchists who immigrated toâŚ
From Kirwin's list on Latin American anarchism and anti-authoritarianism.
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