Description
This book examines the critical connection between revolts and
revolutions to larger notions of social and cultural performances in
Nicaraguan social, cultural and political life.
To understand social relations in Nicaragua today, it is crucial to look at
those highly theatricalized and rhetorical performances of power and
resistance that have spanned specific national spaces for centuries. The
book looks, therefore, at the history of Nicaragua from the colonial period
to the Sandinista Revolution to frame contingent and temporal social and
cultural processes that have become heightened and revealing of the
social relations in revolution. The contemporary staging of the ancient El
Gueguense play, for instance, illustrates a social space that reveals
contemporary issues of oppression and power.
Tapping into the spirit of self-consciousness, reflexivity, and narrational
disruptions, the book uses the conventions of theatre such as audience
and actor relations to make available to readers the theatrical intimacy of
interlocutors and researcher.
