Literature and Politics in the Central American Revolutions [electronic resource] / by John Beverley and Marc Zimmerman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Beverley, John, 1943-

Contributor:

Zimmerman, Marc, 1939-

Series:

New interpretations of Latin America series.

New interpretations of Latin America series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Literature and revolutions--Central America.

Literature and revolutions.

Politics and literature--Central America.

Politics and literature.

Revolutionary poetry, Central American--History and criticism.

Revolutionary poetry, Central American.

Central American poetry--20th century--History and criticism.

Central American poetry.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (271 p.)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Austin : University of Texas Press, 1990.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

“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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Preface

1. Literature, Ideology, and Hegemony

2. Culture, Intellectuals, and Politics in Central America

3. Nicaraguan Poetry from Dario to Cardenal

4. Nicaraguan Poetry of the Insurrection and Reconstruction

5. Salvadoran Revolutionary Poetry

6. Guatemalan Revolutionary Poetry

7. Testimonial Narrative

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [213]-232) and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-292-76227-5

OCLC:

967522109