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Nicaragua and the Politics of Utopia
2015
Overview
The history of modern Nicaragua is populated with leaders promising a new and better day. Inevitably, as Nicaragua and the Politics of Utopia demonstrates, reality casts a shadow and the community must look to the next leader. As an impoverished state, second only to Haiti in the Americas, Nicaragua has been the scene of cyclical attempts and failures at modern development. Author Daniel Chavez investigates the cultural and ideological bases of what he identifies as the three decisive movements of social reinvention in Nicaragua: the regimes of the Somoza family of much of the early to mid-twentieth century; the governments of the Sandinista party; and the present day struggle to adapt to the global market economy.
For each era, Chavez reveals the ways Nicaraguan popular culture adapted and interpreted the new political order, shaping, critiquing, or amplifying the regime's message of stability and prosperity for the people. These tactics of interpretation, otherwise known as meaning-making, became all-important for the Nicaraguan people, as they opposed the autocracy of Somocismo, or complemented the Sandinistas, or struggled to find their place in the Neoliberal era. In every case, Chavez shows the reflective nature of cultural production and its pursuit of utopian idealism.
Publisher
Vanderbilt University Press
Subject
/ Frente Sandinista de Liberacion Nacional
/ Frente Sandinista de Liberación Nacional -- History -- 20th century
/ History
/ Motion pictures -- Political aspects -- Nicaragua
/ Nicaragua -- Intellectual life -- 20th century
/ Nicaragua -- Politics and government -- 1979-1990
/ Nicaraguan literature -- History and criticism
/ Politics and literature -- Nicaragua -- History -- 20th century
/ Public Affairs & Administration
/ Public Policy & Administration
/ Utopian socialism -- Nicaragua -- History -- 20th century
/ World
ISBN
0826520472, 9780826520470, 9780826520494, 0826520499
