Daniel Chavez 
Nicaragua and the Politics of Utopia [EPUB ebook] 
Development and Culture in the Modern State

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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.

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Daniel Chavez is Assistant Professor of Spanish at the University of New Hampshire.

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语言 英语 ● 格式 EPUB ● 网页 376 ● ISBN 9780826503671 ● 文件大小 5.9 MB ● 出版者 Vanderbilt University Press ● 发布时间 2015 ● 下载 24 个月 ● 货币 EUR ● ID 7970397 ● 复制保护 Adobe DRM
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