Background
Zimmerman, Marc Jay was born on January 10, 1939 in Newark.
( “This book began in what seemed like a counterfactual i...)
“This book began in what seemed like a counterfactual intuition . . . that what had been happening in Nicaraguan poetry was essential to the victory of the Nicaraguan Revolution,” write John Beverley and Marc Zimmerman. “In our own postmodern North American culture, we are long past thinking of literature as mattering much at all in the ‘real’ world, so how could this be?” This study sets out to answer that question by showing how literature has been an agent of the revolutionary process in Nicaragua, El Salvador, and Guatemala. The book begins by discussing theory about the relationship between literature, ideology, and politics, and charts the development of a regional system of political poetry beginning in the late nineteenth century and culminating in late twentieth-century writers. In this context, Ernesto Cardenal of Nicaragua, Roque Dalton of El Salvador, and Otto René Castillo of Guatemala are among the poets who receive detailed attention.
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Latin American cultural studies educator
Zimmerman, Marc Jay was born on January 10, 1939 in Newark.
Student, University California, Berkeley, 1958-1959; Bachelor, California State University, San Francisco, 1961; Master of Arts, California State University, San Francisco, 1963; Doctor of Philosophy in Comparative Literature, University of California, San Diego, 1975.
Instructor humanities, Oregon College Education, Monmouth, 1963-1964; lecturer English and comparative literature, San Diego State University, 1965-1972; teaching assistant literature program, University of California, San Diego, 1969-1974; visiting assistant Professor of English Department, University Michigan, Ann Arbor, 1974-1975; counselor, Migrant Farmworker Programs, St. Paul, 1975-1980; cultural attache, professor, Ministerio de Cultura, U. Autonoma de Nicaragua, Managua, 1979-1980; coordinator Latino Cultural Center, University of Illinois, Chicago, 1980-1985; visiting associate professor comparative literature, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, 1985; associate professor Latin American studies, University of Illinois, Chicago, since 1985. Consultant, reader FIPSE, National Endowment for Humanities, Washington, since 1993.
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Member Modern Language Association, Midwest Modern Language Association, Latin American Studies Association.
Son of William and Dorothy (Yosepowich) Z. Divorced; 1 child, Carlos Eduarte. Married Esther Soler, December 26, 1987.