Nicaragua and the politics of utopia
Subtitle: development and culture in the modern state
By: Daniel Chávez
Publisher: Vanderbilt University Press
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 363
ISBN-13: 9780826520470
Subjects: Motion pictures; Politics and government; Frente Sandinista de Liberación Nacional; Politics and literature; Utopian socialism; Intellectual life; History and criticism; Nicaraguan literature; History
Description: "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" --
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 337-354) and index.
Table of contents: title: A Tale of Three Utopias and One Dictatorship; title: Market Dreams and the Transnationalization of Nicaraguan Politics and Literature; title: The Lion in Tropical Winter: The Last Phase of Dictatorship and the Emergence of a Revolutionary Utopia; title: Nature, Gender, and Development in Sandinista Nicaragua; title: Cultural Warfare I: The Struggle for a Revolutionary Reader; title: Cultural Warfare II: Film Exhibition and the New Spectatorship; title: Democracy without Dreams: Neoliberalism as Technocratic Utopia.