{"product_id":"sandinos-nation-9780773543157","title":"Sandinos Nation","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eErnesto Cardenal and Sergio Ramírez are two of the most influential Latin American intellectuals of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Addressing Nicaragua''s struggle for self-definition from divergent ethnic, religious, generational, political, and class backgrounds, they constructed distinct yet compatible visions of national history, anchored in a reappraisal of the early twentieth-century insurgent leader Augusto César Sandino. During the Sandinista Revolution of 1979-90, Cardenal, appointed Nicaragua''s minister of culture, became one of the most provocative and internationally recognized figures of liberation theology, while Ramírez, a member of the revolutionary junta, and later elected vice-president of Nicaragua, emerged as an authoritative figure for third world nationalism. But before all else, the two were groundbreaking creative writers. Through a close reading of the works by Nicaragua''s best-known and most prolific modern authors, Sandino''s Nation st\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Comprehensive, ambitious, provocative, and compelling, Sandino's Nation is a monumental work that is certain to become a model for accomplished, lucid scholarship on Latin American literature.\" Steven F. White, Department of Modern Languages, St. Lawrence University and author of Arando el aire: la ecologia en la poesia y la musica de Nicaragua \" ... interweaves meticulous textual analysis of selected works by Nicaragruan poet-priest Ernesto Cardinal and novelist-politician Sergio Ramirez with detailed political analysis of Nicaraguan history. Recommended.\" CHOICE \"Sandino's Nation is passionate and articulate, an intellectual tour-de-force as well as a page turner.\" - Review: Literature and Arts of the Americas","brand":"McGill-Queen's University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51037943431511,"sku":"9780773543157","price":42.41,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780773543157.jpg?v=1750938283","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/sandinos-nation-9780773543157","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}