Revolutionary lands: precariousness and social and ecological contingency in the Nicaraguan documentary Magic words (to break an enchantment) (2012) by Mercedes Moncada
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| Formato: | artículo original |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de Publicación: | 2020 |
| Descripción: | This essay examines the relationality and representation of Nicaraguans and nature through frameworks of precarity and ecocriticism. The documentary film Palabras mágicas (para romper un encantamiento) (2012) by Mercedes Moncada presents the earth as an extension of the self, firstly, as an allegory of the country, the revolution and the individual, and, secondly, through the contingency and vulnerability of the environment and Nicaragua’s people. Both Nicaraguans and nature are victims of a political system that repeats itself during the 20th and 21st centuries. Through the notions of corporality and materiality, the documentary establishes a link between the Nicaraguan subject and land through their discursivity, both as sites of inscription that are subject to relations of power, a fact that makes them both precarious. Palabras mágicas (2012) proposes that both are victims the somocismo of the 20th century and Ortega’s neosandismo of the 21st century. Finally, from the metaphorical link between Nicaragua’s environment and people, one of the results is framing the environment within a framework of precarity and vulnerability, highlighting contingency and dependency between both humans and itself. |
| País: | Portal de Revistas UNA |
| Institución: | Universidad Nacional de Costa Rica |
| Repositorio: | Portal de Revistas UNA |
| Lenguaje: | Español |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:ojs.www.una.ac.cr:article/13473 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://www.revistas.una.ac.cr/index.php/istmica/article/view/13473 |
| Palabra clave: | Sandinista Revolution, precarity, contingency, ecocriticism, documentary film Revolución sandinista, precariedad, contingencia, ecocrítica, cine documental |