Lexington Books
Pages: 264
Trim: 6¼ x 9
978-1-4985-8798-3 • Hardback • June 2019 • $117.00 • (£90.00)
978-1-7936-0666-2 • eBook • June 2019 • $111.00 • (£85.00)
José María Mantero is professor of Spanish at Xavier University.
Introduction
Chapter 1: Latin American Identity, Liberation, and Intercultural Philosophy: Toward a Latin American Identity
Chapter 2: Utopia and Testimonio
Chapter 3: Post-Revolutionary Autobiography in Nicaragua
Chapter 4: The Work of Omar Cabezas: Orality and Liberation Discourse
Chapter 5: Comedy as Subversion and Resistance in the Work of Omar Cabezas
Chapter 6: The Liberation of Fire From the Mountain: Testimonial Text, Documentary Film, and the New Nicaragua
Conclusion
Bibliography
About the Author
José María Montero’s Omar Cabezas, Nicaragua, and the Narrative of Literation: To the Revolution and Beyond brings into focus the work of Omar Cabezas, one of the most compelling Nicaraguan revolutionary writers of the twentieth century. Through an intelligent comparative analysis of liberation discourse that situates Cabezas’ writing alongside other prominent Nicaraguan authors—Ernesto Cardenal, Gioconda Belli, and Sergio Ramírez—Montero’s book appreciates the ethical, political, and theoretical richness of the testimonio, and, at the same time, uncovers the often-forgotten aesthetic conditions that define liberation discourse and revolution in Nicaragua.
— Brianne Orr-Álvarez, The University of British Columbia