Society Response to Indigenous Women Literature and Afro-descendents: A Reflection to Women Literature from the Nicaraguan Caribbean Coast

Abstract

This article analyses the discriminatory reactions that Nicaraguan society shows towards the literature of afro-descendents and indigenous women, which barely goes beyond the households and the Caribbean border despite of the efforts of some cultural Caribbean institutions. According to the author, the gender discrimination is intensified to a large extent by the historical facts and racism, which have not yet been overcome. This is another example of the exclusion policies and the irrational and indiscriminate exploitation that the national state has established in its relations with the country’s Caribbean Coast. This situation does not allow to reconcile the different suggestions and projects, to direct the diverse definitions and to delimit a cultural politic that not only promotes the Spanish literature.  

DOI: 10.5377/wani.v57i0.218

Wani No.57 2008 pp.51-59