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Nicaragua - the Imagining of a Nation - from Nineteenth-century Liberals to Twentieth-century Sandinistas: A History of...
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by Luciano Baracco
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Cover Type: Paperback with 188 pages
Published by: Algora Publishing October 31, 2005
Written in: English
ISBN 10 Number: 0875863922
ISBN 13 Number: 978-0875863924
Book Dimensions:
8.8 x 5.9 x 0.6 inches
Weighs: 9.6 ounces
Product Review
The relatively brief consideration of the topics surveyed in the title proves to be an asset, as Baracco (Univ. of Bradford) successfully builds his study around a few central ideas and works through them in a convincing, if quick, fashion. At other times, it is a weakness, particularly in the discussion of Nicaragua's 19th- and early-20th-century history in chapter 2, where readers unfamiliar with the subject may be confused. The author also has a tendency to jump backward and forward in time, further confusing the narrative. His work's strength lies in the later chapters, which consider how the Nicaraguan nation and nationalism have been conceptualized over time. With specific references to Sandino and the national literacy campaign undertaken by the Sandinista regime in the 1980s, these sections give the book intellectual weight and clarity. The chapters on the interplay of these factors in the Atlantic coastal region among the indigenous Miskitu and the Anglo-American-oriented Creole communities are of great interest. Here, Baracco analyzes the literacy crusade in terms of Benedict Anderson's "imagined community" concept of nationhood, and the challenges to Sandinista rule are cast as responses to traditional Hispanic nationalism. These chapters make the short study worth reading. Summing Up: Recommended. All academic levels/libraries. -- J. M. Rosenthal, Western Connecticut State University --Choice
Baracco (Ph.D., peace studies, University of Bradford, UK), analyzes the discourse of nationalism deployed by the Nicaraguan Sandinistas in their struggle to wrest state power from the dictator Somoza and later to wield it in support of their political goals. Strongly influenced by Benedict Anderson's theory of the nation as an imagined political community, he compares and contrasts the nationalist discourse of the Sandinistas and that of the earlier Liberal Revolution of Jose Santos Zelaya, analyzes the characteristics of the Sandinistas particular construction of the image of the Nicaraguan nation, and discusses the Sandinistas' failed Literacy Program as a project of imagining the nation and the alternative national imaginings that emerged from the Miskitu Indian communities under other ethnic groups of the Atlantic coast.
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Nicaragua: The Imagining of a Nation is geared to students and academics of nationalism studies, history, and Latin American studies. Analyzing Nicaragua s post-colonial history, the author studies the Sandinista Revolution in the context of Nicaragua s ongoing efforts at nation-building. Baracco identifies the origins of the Sandinista Revolution in terms of the failure of nineteenth-century liberal regimes to complete the task of constructing Nicaragua as a culturally and historically distinct, sovereign, national entity.
The book is based on research of various sources from the archives of the Instituto de Historia de Nicaragua y Centroamerica, Central American University Managua, and on interview evidence taken from leading figures from within the Sandinista government (1979-90).
At the nexus of politics, sociology, development studies, nationalism studies and Latin American studies, this work takes Nicaragua as a case study to engage and advance Benedict Anderson s ideas on the origins and spread of nationalism and illustrates his theories on nations as imagined political communities.
The empirical application of these ideas to national literacy campaigns and popular nationalist literature illustrates how nationalism has worked in Nicaragua on a routinized and daily basis, and shows how the Sandinistas attempted to complete a process of nation building that had been initiated in the previous century, yet had remained an unfinished task largely due to the successive interventions of the United States in the political and economic affairs of Nicaragua. It also illustrates how Sandinista nationalism departed from its nineteenth-century Liberal version, by re-imagining the nation in terms of an anti-imperialist political identity that would serve the revolutionary government s developmental objectives.
The book offers insights into the evolution of states in post-colonial Latin America and their struggle to strike an acceptable balance between sovereignty issues and the imperatives of global politics.
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