Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Abbreviations xi
5. Citation System xiii
6. Priest and Politician as Arbiters of Sandino’s Nation 1
7. Nicaraguan History to 1979 21
8. Cardenal: The Contemplative’s Poetry (1940–68) 45
9. Ramírez: From Student Activist to Exiled Writer (1956–75) 118
10. Cardenal: The First Incursion into Prose (1970–75) 194
11. Nicaraguan History, 1979–90 225
12. Ramírez: Towards the Novelist as Vice-President (1976–89) 239
13. Cardenal: The Revolutionary Poet (1969–89) 340
14. Nicaraguan History after 1990 426
15. Ramírez: The Politician as Writer after the Revolution (1990–2006) 443
16. Cardenal: The Poet as Memoirist, the Nation as Relic (1990–2006) 563
17. Ortega’s Nation: Two Dissident Writers Face Globalization (2007–12) 627
18. Notes 689
19. Bibliography 711
20. Index 735