Posguerra, Literatura Y Política: Una Lectura en Clave Contractual

Abstract

The project explores the production of revisionist discourses in postwar Nicaragua. The task is to ‘read’ both the literary strategies operated as well as the political performances staged by these discourses to actively ‘intervene’ the conflictive scenarios generated by the termination of the Sandinista Revolution (1979-1990) and the subsequent ‘reenter’ of the post-revolutionary nation into the global market economy. The research working hypothesis suggests that intervening these conflictive scenarios presupposes the articulation of a diversity of narratives and performances at once contesting and propositive. One key purpose of these narratives and these performances is to set calculated spaces of political negotiation. Thus, the project examines the discursive artifices operated by peace talk actors, war testimonies and novels to document how reconciliatory performances, oral accounts and literary texts retell & questions a decade of war & revolution to propose innovative modes of rapprochement and political redistribution.