El poder de la poesía política: La poesía de Vidaluz Meneses, Michele Najlis y Daisy Zamora en la Revolución Sandinista

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2014
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Haverford College. Department of Spanish
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The Manuel J. and Elisa P. Asensio Prize
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Poetry in the Sandinista movement was a crucial place for negotiations over political and social representation, and became a site where popular culture was created and where movement ideology was consolidated. Literature in Nicaragua, and poetry in particular, was central not only as an expressive and liberative process for the individual, but also as a symbolic arena for the formation of a collective revolutionary ideology. In my thesis I focus on the work of three female poets from the educated vanguard in Nicaragua: Vidaluz Meneses, Michele Najlis and Daisy Zamora, who published both leading up to the successful Sandinista insurrection in 1979, and also after the establishment of the revolutionary government which lasted from 1979 to 1990. I follow these women and their poetry through the revolution, recognizing that the promise of the revolution created space for women to imagine the possibilities for change in society. In my thesis I analyze their poetry as a search for a collective and individual female identity, noting how their writing changes with shifts in political power and how they incorporate multiple perspectives and identities in their poetry.
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