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Gerald Azul

9/4/2012

Tuesday and Thursday at 9:00 am

Preliminary Genre Analysis

Setting

The articles I obtained were from the UCF library databases. The database I used was

Worldwide Political Science Abstracts. Other articles in the same journals I retrieved my specific

articles were all political analyses. They range from specific analysis to certain countries and

events, or broad overviews of regions and events. My topic, which is the real Che Guevara and

politics/views in relation to todays world, has been thoroughly analyzed in this database. The

database also provided broad overviews of Che Guevara.

Subject

Two of three articles are in depth analysis of Che Guevara. The article by James Petras

put Che Guevara into perspective with contemporary revolutions, especially in Latin America.

Latin America today is pretty much a refuge for far left ideologies, for example Venezuela and

their leader Hugo Chavez; a far left politician. The book which my second article originated from

by Humberto Fontova analyzes the true character of Che Guevara. He attempts to remove the

mystique and folk legend perspective of Che Guevara. The third article by Gordon H.


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McCormick is a broad overview of the legendary Che Guevara. It mainly contains a brief

history as to why he is so revered by the world today. It would be something you can find on

wikipedia or any basic source of knowledge.

Participants

The main audience of these articles is fellow political scientists and analysts. Not only do

they read these articles, many write their own articles with their own analysis. For this topic,

mainly political scientists and analysts with a specialty in revolutions will have much interest in

these articles. It wasnt until after the 1960s academics took up studying revolution, especially in

todays world where terrorism is a problem, and events like the Arab Spring. The authors are all

analysts. Gordon H. McCormick is an analysts that has worked for the Department of Defense

and other agencies with similar objectives. James Petra is a political scientist and sociologist, as

well as an activist. Humberto Fontova is a Cuban Exile and a sociologist. Political science is a

blend of other social sciences, this is why two of the three authors are sociologists.

Feautures

The recurrent feature in these articles is Che Guevaras political ideology (Marxist

Leninist). The difference between the three is the analysis. For example, Fontova removes the

legend of Che from the individual and analyzes him as a person. Petras puts Che in

contemporary revolution terms and how his ideology would be today. For example, he mentions

a clich about Che; he wrote along the lines of, Che would shoot the people who wear shirts


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and other memorabilia. McCormick actually keeps the legendary aspect of Che. His article is

mainly about what made Che a legend, not necessarily as in depth as the other two analyses. All

the articles are written in sections. Each begin with a quick overview, and then jump into the

analysis. The voices are either monotone or highly passionate. I would assume the article by

McCormick would be passionate being it is about the legend/romantic aspect of Che.

Patterns

The genre of these articles is for the political science crowd. In turn these are written in

the APA format, or at least cited in this manner. The articles are written in sections, and each

section is an elaboration/presentation of evidence for a certain argument or analysis. It shows the

values these authors have. They value their perspective and present them to the reader in an

upfront manner. The flow of the articles is that there is none. The flow resides in the individual

subheadings. These are used normally with research in liberal arts. For example in Comp 1, my

class was assigned to do ethnography. After the research was conducted of a certain discourse

community, the data was written up in the APA format. This format is usual with liberal arts like

history, especially when a specific event or time period is researched and the writer has a specific

analysis. From these articles especially when doing extensive research allow the reader to gain a

certain perspective. In time the reader can create his or her own perspective and analysis, then

write of it. The attitude of the articles is generally biased. Che Guevara was a political figures,

and all politics are biased, they are a simply a theory like genres and genre analysis in writing.

The writers attitude toward the world go from anti-imperialist to American conservative. Each


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authors article is usually skewed by the right or left wing in relation to the country and lifestyle

they were raised in.

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