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This book examines the critical connection between revolts and revolutions to larger notions of social and cultural performances in Nicaraguan social, cultural and political life. To understand social relations in Nicaragua today, it is crucial to look at those highly theatricalized and rhetorical performances of power and resistance that have spanned specific national spaces for centuries. The book looks, therefore, at the history of Nicaragua from the colonial period to the Sandinista Revolution to frame contingent and temporal social and cultural processes that have become heightened and revealing of the social relations in revolution. The contemporary staging of the ancient El Gueguense play, for instance, illustrates a social space that reveals contemporary issues of oppression and power. Tapping into the spirit of self-consciousness, reflexivity, and narrational disruptions, the book uses the conventions of theatre such as audience and actor relations to make available to readers the theatrical intimacy of interlocutors and researcher.

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Alberto Guevara was part of the Nicaraguan Sandinista Revolution making theatre during the 1980s. A member of Alan Bolt's Nyxtayoleros Theatre group, Nicaragua, he has collaborated in several inter-cultural theatre organizations including Mise au Jeu (Montreal), Théâtre autochthone Ondinnok (Montreal), Dalit Theatre Group (Nepal), and Chocolate Woman Collective (Toronto). Presently an Associate Professor of Theatre and Performance Studies at York University, he is the author of Performance, Theatre and Society in Contemporary Nicaragua: Spectacles of Gender, Sexuality and Marginality (2014). His films have been shown internationally at venues such as DOXA Documentary Film Festival, Planet in Focus Environmental, International Film and Video Festival, and the Royal Anthropological Institute International Festival of Ethnographic Films. He is the founder and managing editor of the interdisciplinary e-journal Intensions.

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