Nicaragua and the Politics of Utopia : Development and Culture in the Modern State / / Daniel Chavez

• Autore: Chavez Daniel
• Pubblicazione: Nashville, Tennessee : , : Vanderbilt University Press, , 2015; ©2015
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (377 p.)
• Disciplina: 972.8505/2; 972.85
• Soggetto topico: Utopian socialism - Nicaragua - History - 20th century; Motion pictures - Political aspects - Nicaragua; Nicaraguan literature - History and criticism; Politics and literature - Nicaragua - History - 20th century
• Soggetto geografico: Nicaragua Intellectual life 20th century; Nicaragua Politics and government 1979-1990
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Title Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. A Tale of Three Utopias and One Dictatorship; 2. Market Dreams and the Transnationalization of Nicaraguan Politics and Literature; 3. The Lion in Tropical Winter: The Last Phase of Dictatorship and the Emergence of a Revolutionary Utopia; 4. Nature, Gender, and Development in Sandinista Nicaragua; 5. Cultural Warfare I; 6. Cultural Warfare II; 7. Democracy without Dreams; Conclusion; Notes; Filmography; Bibliography; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: "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" --
• Titolo autorizzato: Nicaragua and the Politics of Utopia
• ISBN: 0-8265-0367-5; 0-8265-2049-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910815473303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II