Modern Women Intellectuals and the Sandino Rebellion
Carmen Sobalvarro and Aura Rostand
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 19003231 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Erin S Finzer (University of Arkansas at Little Rock, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 56 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 457-471 |
| Publication date | 2021-06-15 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Latin American Research Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0023-8791 • E-ISSN: 1542-4278 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.25222/larr.878 |
| OpenAlex | W3167868475 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 17 |
Achieving global fame in 1927, Nicaragua’s General Augusto César Sandino came to symbolize and unite international solidarity movements against US imperialism by cultivating a sophisticated transnational intellectual network that encompassed communications, public relations, intelligence, provisions, volunteers, and fundraising. The participation of male public intellectuals in Sandino’s strategic communications is well documented, but the roles of intellectual women in the rebellion have not been appreciably explored to date. Bringing to light new archival research on the Nicaraguan poets and journalists Carmen Sobalvarro and Aura Rostand, this article examines how their gendered writing and public personae propagated both Sandino’s war and his legacy after his 1934 assassination. As part of an informal network of women intellectuals, Sobalvarro and Rostand played integral roles in Sandino’s public relations in Nicaragua and abroad. As Sandino has once again become a contested figure in light of Nicaragua’s oppressive Ortega-Murillo government, this recuperative cultural study also bears on present-day Nicaraguan political discourse
Government (linguistics) · Media studies · Political science · Politics · Public life · Sociology · Solidarity · Caribbean history, culture, and politics · Cuban History and Society · Gender Studies · Latin American and Latino Studies · Law
Latin American women and the search for social justice
The Allure of the Archives
Women, Culture, and Politics in Latin America
Performing Women and Modern Literary Culture in Latin America
The Gender of Modernity
Among Sandino’s Girlfriends
Confronting the American Dream
Entre Sandino y Somoza
Mexicanas en guerra
Pioneering Transnational Solidarity in the Americas
Mother Earth, Earth Mother
Gathering Rage
What Went Wrong? Rethinking the Sandinista Revolution, in Light of Its Second Coming
The nation is our mother
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |