Entre occidentalismo y orientalismo: la escritura estereográfica de la Revolución Mexicana en España. El militarismo mejicano de Blasco Ibáñez y Tirano Banderas de Valle-Inclán

En contraste con la tranquila manifestación de socialistas que desfilan junto a sus hijos con las cestas del almuerzo, los gachupines que observan desde sus mesas son para Dos Passos "people with gimlet eyes and greedy predatory lines on their faces, jerkwater importers and exporters, small brokers, loan sharks, commissionmerchants, pawnbrokers, men who knew how to make two duros grow where one had grown before" (341). La crítica de Blasco revela así su ideologia occidentalista, definida por Fernando Coronil corno "a system of classification that expresses forms of cultural and economic difference in the modern world . . . inseparably tied to the constitution of international asymmetries underwritten by global capitalism" (57). Sorprenden temen te, ése sería el título que usaría el autor mexicano Martín Luis Guzmán al publicar con la C.I.A.P. de Madrid en 1928 sus retratos revolucionarios del campo villista. 10 "Students of the colonial consistently have argued that the authority to designate what would count as reason and reasonable was colonialism's most insidious and effective technology of rule - one that, in turn, would profoundly affect the style and strategies of anticolonial, nationalist politics" (Stoler 57). Levine, Daniel H. "Assessing the Impacts of Liberation Theology in Latin America".