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Literature and Politics in the Central American Revolutions
“This book began in what seemed like a counterfactual intuition . . . that what had been happening in Nicaraguan poetry was essential to the victory of the Nicaraguan Revolution,” write John Beverley and Marc Zimmerman. “In our own postmodern North American culture, we are long past thinking of literature as mattering much at all in the ‘real’ world, so how could this be?” This study sets out to answer that question by showing how literature has been an agent of the revolutionary process in Nicaragua, El Salvador, and Guatemala.

The book begins by discussing theory about the relationship between literature, ideology, and politics, and charts the development of a regional system of political poetry beginning in the late nineteenth century and culminating in late twentieth-century writers. In this context, Ernesto Cardenal of Nicaragua, Roque Dalton of El Salvador, and Otto René Castillo of Guatemala are among the poets who receive detailed attention.

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Literature and Politics in the Central American Revolutions
“This book began in what seemed like a counterfactual intuition . . . that what had been happening in Nicaraguan poetry was essential to the victory of the Nicaraguan Revolution,” write John Beverley and Marc Zimmerman. “In our own postmodern North American culture, we are long past thinking of literature as mattering much at all in the ‘real’ world, so how could this be?” This study sets out to answer that question by showing how literature has been an agent of the revolutionary process in Nicaragua, El Salvador, and Guatemala.

The book begins by discussing theory about the relationship between literature, ideology, and politics, and charts the development of a regional system of political poetry beginning in the late nineteenth century and culminating in late twentieth-century writers. In this context, Ernesto Cardenal of Nicaragua, Roque Dalton of El Salvador, and Otto René Castillo of Guatemala are among the poets who receive detailed attention.

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Literature and Politics in the Central American Revolutions

Literature and Politics in the Central American Revolutions

Literature and Politics in the Central American Revolutions
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Literature and Politics in the Central American Revolutions

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“This book began in what seemed like a counterfactual intuition . . . that what had been happening in Nicaraguan poetry was essential to the victory of the Nicaraguan Revolution,” write John Beverley and Marc Zimmerman. “In our own postmodern North American culture, we are long past thinking of literature as mattering much at all in the ‘real’ world, so how could this be?” This study sets out to answer that question by showing how literature has been an agent of the revolutionary process in Nicaragua, El Salvador, and Guatemala.

The book begins by discussing theory about the relationship between literature, ideology, and politics, and charts the development of a regional system of political poetry beginning in the late nineteenth century and culminating in late twentieth-century writers. In this context, Ernesto Cardenal of Nicaragua, Roque Dalton of El Salvador, and Otto René Castillo of Guatemala are among the poets who receive detailed attention.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780292746725
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Publication date: 11/01/1990
Series: LLILAS New Interpretations of Latin America Series
Pages: 272
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

John Beverley is Professor of Spanish and Latin American Literature and Cultural Studies at the University of Pittsburgh. Marc Zimmerman is Professor of World Cultures and Literatures at the University of Houston.

Table of Contents

  • Contents
  • Preface
  • 1. Literature, Ideology, and Hegemony
  • 2. Culture, Intellectuals, and Politics in Central America
  • 3. Nicaraguan Poetry from Darío to Cardenal
  • 4. Nicaraguan Poetry of the Insurrection and Reconstruction
  • 5. Salvadoran Revolutionary Poetry
  • 6. Guatemalan Revolutionary Poetry
  • 7. Testimonial Narrative
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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