A Transnational Analysis of Representations of the US Filibusters in Nicaragua, 1855-1857

This book investigates how the encounter between the U.S. filibuster expedition in 1855-1857 and Nicaraguans was imagined in both countries. The author examines transnational media and gives special emphasis to hitherto neglected publications like the bilingual newspaper El Nicaraguense. The study analyzes filibusters' direct influence on their representations and how these form the basis for popular collective memories and academic discourses.

Examines often neglected sources Shows the impact of partisan archives on current understanding of U.S. Filibusters Demonstrates how connected antebellum American was to the isthmus

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Andreas Beer received a PhD in American Studies in 2014 and is now a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Constance, Germany. His research interests include transnational entanglements in antebellum America (especially with Latin America), literary and social practices in contemporary protest movements, and processes of indigenous identification and subalternity in the American hemisphere. His latest publication is (together with Gesa Mackenthun): Fugitive Knowledges. The Preservation and Loss of Knowledges in Cultural Contact Zones (2015).

Inhalt

Introduction: Transnational Perspective on the Nicaraguan Filibuster Episode.- Chapter One: Conceptualizing the Filibuster(o)s.- Chapter Two: The Nicaraguan Press and El Nicaraguense .- Chapter Three: Discursive Voyages between the US and Nicaragua.- Chapter Four: Between Omnipresence and Oblivion: The Filibusters in Transnational Collective Memories and Nationalist Historiographies.- In Lieu of a Conclusion.