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“Palabras contra balas”: Challenging the Nicaraguan State with Feminist Theatre in Exile

Latin American Anthropology Seminar :

Seminar onlinge via Zoom :

18 march 2021 5.00pm – 7.00pm :

Samira Marty, University of Oslo :

This presentation revolves around a particular group of Nicaraguan dissidents, a collective in Berlin composed of educated but marginalised young women, who have supported the Nicaraguan uprising since April 2018. For this particular group, the uprising was a culmination of a fight that takes its origins in the country’s revolutionary period. Since the successful overthrow of the authoritarian caudillo Anastasio Somoza by the left-wing insurgent Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN) in 1979, the FSLN has encouraged specifically women to engage in theatre as a form of revolutionary practice. This led to a widespread use of drama street performance as a means to promote gender equality and other revolutionary messages. Forty years later, and despite over two (albeit interrupted) decades of FSLN governance, the women in the collective still perceive gender inequality an unfulfilled goal – this time exacerbated by the exorbitant use of state violence as a reaction to the protests in 2018. The young women in Berlin have returned to the revolutionary form of theatre to challenge restrictions of democratic rights by the FSLN-government, whom they call “Orteguistas” after its President Daniel Ortega, and gendered hierarchies predominant in the Nicaraguan social fabric. The paper explores how political ideology, revolutionary memory and gender identity are represented in theatre performances of the collective, the symbols they invoke, and humour they express. All are welcome. Attendance is free.

More informations HERE

Convenors: Jessica Sklair (Cambridge), Natalia Buitron (Oxford), Ainhoa Montoya (ILAS, SAS). 


OpenEdition le sugiere que cite este post de la siguiente manera:
REGARDS CNRS (13 de marzo de 2021). “Palabras contra balas”: Challenging the Nicaraguan State with Feminist Theatre in Exile. Redial & Ceisal. Recuperado 13 de enero de 2026 de https://doi.org/10.58079/tg34


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