Political Power and literature in Central America: Sergio Ramírez and Carlos Alvarado
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| Authors: | , |
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| Format: | artículo original |
| Status: | Versión publicada |
| Publication Date: | 2022 |
| Description: | This essay addresses the relationship between literature and politics in Central America by focusing on two different, but interconnected processes: on one hand, it explores the public encounters between Nicaraguan writer Sergio Ramírez and Costa Rican President Carlos Alvarado during 2019-2020; on the other hand, it analyses one of the results of those meetings—former Costa Rica’s Presidents request to the Legislative Assembly of Costa Rica to concede Ramírez an honorific citizenship in 2021. Our methodology consists of comparing Ramírez’s and Alvarado’s careers while we also made an in-depth revision of Central American and foreign newspapers. We conclude that Ramírez promoted those encounters in an attempt to publicly compare Costa Rica’s democracy to Nicaragua’s authoritarian regime; in that sense, Alvarado strategically backed Ramírez as a way to internationally spread his literary production in order to compensate his growing local unpopular image. Finally, we present the claims of Ramírez’s enemies against the Presidents’ request and how Costa Rica’s democracy favored them. |
| Country: | Portal de Revistas UCR |
| Institution: | Universidad de Costa Rica |
| Repositorio: | Portal de Revistas UCR |
| Language: | Español |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:portal.ucr.ac.cr:article/53301 |
| Online Access: | https://revistas.ucr.ac.cr/index.php/estudios/article/view/53301 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Keyword: | Literature; Politics; Central America: Democracy: Authoritarianism literatura; política; Centroamérica; democracia; autoritarismo |