A Tale of Three Utopias and One Dictatorship -- Market Dreams and the Transnationalization of Nicaraguan Politics and Literature -- The Lion in Tropical Winter: The Last Phase of Dictatorship and the Emergence of a Revolutionary Utopia -- Nature, Gender, and Development in Sandinista Nicaragua -- Cultural Warfare I: The Struggle for a Revolutionary Reader -- Cultural Warfare II: Film Exhibition and the New Spectatorship -- Democracy without Dreams: Neoliberalism as Technocratic Utopia.
Summary:
"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" -- Provided by publisher.
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