University of Texas Press
Literature and Politics in the Central American Revolutions
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.
Author: John Beverley, Marc Zimmerman
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Published: 11/01/1990
Pages: 272
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.94lbs
Size: 9.04h x 6.06w x 0.81d
ISBN: 9780292746725
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.
