Nicaragua and the politics of utopia : development and culture in the modern state / Daniel Chávez.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Chávez, Daniel, 1967- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Frente Sandinista de Liberación Nacional.

Utopian socialism.

History.

Motion pictures--Political aspects.

Motion pictures.

Nicaraguan literature.

Politics and literature.

Intellectual life.

Nicaragua--Politics and government--1979-1990.

Nicaragua.

Politics and government.

Nicaragua--Intellectual life--20th century.

Frente Sandinista de Liberación Nacional--History--20th century.

Politics and literature--Nicaragua--History--20th century.

Nicaraguan literature--History and criticism.

Motion pictures--Political aspects--Nicaragua.

Utopian socialism--Nicaragua--History--20th century.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

History.

Physical Description:

x, 363 pages ; 27 cm

Place of Publication:

Nashville : Vanderbilt University Press, [2015]

Summary:

"Nicaragua and the Politics of Utopia proposes that utopias are not only for novelists and poets; contemporary dictators, Marxist revolutionaries, and neoliberal economists also deal with promises and hubris, with imagined national destinies that often end up in conflict and disaster" -- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

A Tale of Three Utopias and One Dictatorship

Market Dreams and the Transnationalization of Nicaraguan Politics and Literature

The Lion in Tropical Winter: The Last Phase of Dictatorship and the Emergence of a Revolutionary Utopia

Nature, Gender, and Development in Sandinista Nicaragua

Cultural Warfare I: The Struggle for a Revolutionary Reader

Cultural Warfare II: Film Exhibition and the New Spectatorship

Democracy without Dreams: Neoliberalism as Technocratic Utopia.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780826520470

0826520472

OCLC:

892880120