“Whose Tomorrow is Tomorrow?”: Remembering (Past) Futures in Autobiographical Writings of the US-Nicaragua Solidarity Movement and Contra War, 1979-1991

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  • Verena Baier University of Regensburg

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5283/copas.312

Keywords:

life writing, US-Nicaragua solidarity movement, Contra War, past futures, utopia, nostalgia, 1980s US society

Abstract

Tracing the question of how life writing about the US-Nicaragua solidarity movement and Contra War comments on 1980s US society, this paper investigates the narrative construction of future visions through the plotted narratives of past presents and past futures in John Brentlinger’s The Best of What We Are: Reflections on the Nicaraguan Revolution“ and William R. Meara’s Contra Cross: Insurgency and Tyranny in Central America, 1979-1989“.

Author Biography

Verena Baier, University of Regensburg

Verena Baier is a PhD candidate in American Studies at the University of Regensburg where she is currently working on her dissertation project on life writings of the US-Nicaragua Solidarity Movement and Contra War of the 1980s. She is supported by a full PhD scholarship of the Stiftung der Deutschen Wirtschaft (sdw) and works as managing assistant of the doctoral research group of the faculties of philosophy at the University of Regensburg (PUR). She studied at Augustana College, IL, with a PROMOS scholarship supporting her stay, at the University of Seville, Spain, and at the University of Regensburg, Germany, where she completed her first state exam in English and Spanish in the summer of 2017.

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Published

2019-06-12

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Baier, Verena. “‘Whose Tomorrow Is Tomorrow?’: Remembering (Past) Futures in Autobiographical Writings of the US-Nicaragua Solidarity Movement and Contra War, 1979-1991”. Current Objectives of Postgraduate American Studies, vol. 20, no. 1, June 2019, doi:10.5283/copas.312.

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Vol. 20 No. 1 (2019)

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