Risking a Somersault in the Air
Title | Risking a Somersault in the Air PDF eBook |
Author | Margaret Randall |
Publisher | New Village Press |
Total Pages | 266 |
Release | 2022-05-24 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 161332183X |
First revised edition of interviews with 14 prominent activists whose writings influenced the 1979 Nicaraguan revolution and help us understand present-day Nicaragua Margaret Randall presents a dynamic collection of personal interviews with Nicaragua's most important writer-revolutionaries who played major roles in the 1979 revolution and the subsequent reconstruction. This revised first edition includes a new preface and additional notes that frame the narrative in high relevance to the present day. The featured writer-activists speak of their work and practical tasks in constructing a new society. Among the writers included are Gioconda Belli, Tomás Borge, Omar Cabezas, Ernesto Cardenal, Vidaluz Menéses, Julio Valle-Castillo, and Daisy Zamora. The work also features 50 evocative photographs from the era by Margaret Randall.
Risking a Somersault in the Air
Title | Risking a Somersault in the Air PDF eBook |
Author | Margaret Randall |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 215 |
Release | 1984 |
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Risking a Somersault in the Air
Title | Risking a Somersault in the Air PDF eBook |
Author | Margaret Randall |
Publisher | New Village Press |
Total Pages | 263 |
Release | 2022-05-24 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 1613321848 |
First revised edition of interviews with 14 prominent activists whose writings influenced the 1979 Nicaraguan revolution and help us understand present-day Nicaragua Margaret Randall presents a dynamic collection of personal interviews with Nicaragua's most important writer-revolutionaries who played major roles in the 1979 revolution and the subsequent reconstruction. This revised first edition includes a new preface and additional notes that frame the narrative in high relevance to the present day. The featured writer-activists speak of their work and practical tasks in constructing a new society. Among the writers included are Gioconda Belli, Tomás Borge, Omar Cabezas, Ernesto Cardenal, Vidaluz Menéses, Julio Valle-Castillo, and Daisy Zamora. The work also features 50 evocative photographs from the era by Margaret Randall.
The Courage for Truth
Title | The Courage for Truth PDF eBook |
Author | Thomas Merton |
Publisher | Macmillan |
Total Pages | 337 |
Release | 1993 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 0374130558 |
From 1948 (when he first wrote to Evelyn Waugh, who was editing The Seven Storey Mountain for publication in England) until his death in 1968, Thomas Merton corresponded with writers around the world, developing an ever-widening circle of friends in Europe, the Soviet Union, South and North America. Merton wrote, and heard from, many prominent writers of the stature of Waugh, Jacques Maritain, Czeslaw Milosz, Boris Pasternak, James Baldwin, Walker Percy, Henry Miller, and Victoria Ocampo. He also corresponded with and encouraged newer writers in Latin America, like Ernesto Cardenal. Merton sensed in these writers a hope for the future of humanity and believed that the courage for truth was their special gift. Writing to Jose Coronel Urtecho, Merton asserted that poets "remain almost the only ones who have anything to say . . . They have the courage to disbelieve what is shouted with the greatest amount of noise from every loudspeaker". Courage rooted in true freedom is evident in Merton's own life. He shared with his literary friends his concerns about war, violence and repression, racism and injustice, and all forms of human aggression. Forbidden to publish on the subject of war by his superiors, he obeyed but continued to circulate his famous "Cold War Letters". He did not hesitate to criticize his church when he saw there was more concern for the institutional structure than there was for people. Merton especially admired those who had the courage to write under oppression, like Pasternak, Milosz, and Cardenal.
Resistance Literature
Title | Resistance Literature PDF eBook |
Author | Barbara Harlow |
Publisher | Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | 212 |
Release | 2023-03-01 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1000874664 |
As one of the foundational texts in the field of postcolonial writing, Barbara Harlow’s Resistance Literature introduced new ground in Western literary studies. Originally published in 1987 and now reissued with a new Preface by Mia Carter, this powerfully argued and controversial critique develops an approach to literature which is essentially political. Resistance Literature introduces the reader to the role of literature in the liberation movements of the developing world during the 20th Century. It considers a body of writing largely ignored in the west. Although the book is organized according to generic topics – poetry, narrative, prison memoirs – thematic topics, and the specific historical conditions that influence the cultural and political strategies of various resistance struggles, including those of Palestine, Nicaragua and South Africa, are brought to the fore. Among the questions raised are the role of women in the developing world; communication in circumstances of extreme atomization; literature versus propaganda; censorship; and the problem of adopting literary forms identified with the oppressor culture.
The Grimace of Macho Ratón
Title | The Grimace of Macho Ratón PDF eBook |
Author | Les W. Field |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 328 |
Release | 1999 |
Genre | History |
ISBN |
An ethnographic account of indigenous artisans in Nicaragua and the complex ways they have understood and constructed their own identity from the period of the Sandanistas to the present.
Sandinista Narratives
Title | Sandinista Narratives PDF eBook |
Author | Jean-Pierre Reed |
Publisher | Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | 343 |
Release | 2020-10-21 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1498523501 |
Sandinista Narratives is an analysis of the role of agency in the Nicaraguan Revolution and its aftermath. Jean-Pierre Reed argues that the insurrection in Nicaragua was shaped by political contingency, action-specific subjectivity, and popular culture. He also examines how Sandinista ideology contributed to state-building in Nicaragua while tracing the role of post-revolutionary Sandinismo as a political identity.