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No Jacket. New York. 1986. Lumen Books. 1st Edition. Very Good in Hardcover. No Dustjacket. 0930829069. 134 pages. hardcover. Cover: Catalina Parra. keywords: Latin America Nicaragua Central America History Politics. DESCRIPTION-This collection of testimonies from Nicaraguan writers is a mixture of interviews, key documents, and speeches. The material provides a diverse panorama of the evolving intellectual conscience of Nicaragua over the last sixty years. In countries such as those in Latin America that are subject to the necessity and the possibility of complete social transformations, the personal life of the artist is becoming increasingly linked with the collective life of his people. Until recently, Nicaragua, for example, was considered a backward, semi-feudal country run by a political strongman. Now Nicaragua is at the forefront of Latin America's political vanguard. Since the Somoza dictatorship was overthrown in 1979, Nicaragua has embarked on a search to establish a new political and cultural identity. Under these conditions, social changes inform not only the personal development of the artist but also the cultural evolution of an entire country. There is a general distrust of politicized art in the United States, perhaps because we have grown accustomed to the smooth substitutions of Democratic for Republican administrations and vice versa. In our educational system, there is often a separation of culture and politics based on the belief that they are, by definition, mutually exclusive and antagonistic. We are taught that the proper subject matter of a poem does not include the political. Many poets in the United States have challenged these tenets in recent years by discovering that a good poem depends not on a particular theme, whatever it may be, but on the writer's skill. And so, using Whitman, perhaps, as a spiritual guide or a poet from another country whose work has been translated into English, poets in the United States have been exploring and expanding the boundaries of politicized language. CONTENTS: Culture and Politics in Nicaragua: Defining a National Identity; I, Poets of the Vanguardia-Jose Coronel Urtecho, Pablo Antonio; II, The Generation of 1940-Ernesto Mejia Sanchez, Carlos Martinez Rivas; Ernesto Cardenal; III. The 1960s and ‘70s: A New Militancy-Sergio Beltrán Morales, Ricardo Morales AvilEs; IV After the Revolution-Daisy Zamora, Rosario Murillo, Guillernio Rothschuh Villanueva, Eduardo Galeano, Francisco De Asis Fernández, and Juan Gelnian Mayra, Alvaro Urtecho, Rosario Murillo; Appendix; Selected List of Useful Publications. inventory #18473.
