Sacrifice, Faith, Mestizo Identity: Three Views of Che’s “New Man”

Abstract

Abstract:This article revisits Che Guevara’s concept of the new man through close readings of the book and film Motorcycle Diaries and Steven Soderbergh’s film Che: Part One (2008). Although I also briefly engage Che’s Episodes of the Cuban Revolutionary War and use Richard Dindo’s film Ernesto Che Guevara: The Bolivian Diary (1996) as a framing device, my primary focus is a critical analysis of the origins of the utopian myth of the new man.