The literary construction of the Sandinista revolution: from the collective epic to the memoirist narrative

Abstract

The Sandinista revolution, like the Mexican and the Cuban, which occurred in 1979, will have its own literary stylization in a series of titles that publicize the first Latin American and worldwide community. Previously, the figure liberating Sandino acquired historical relevance in the works of Argentine historian Gregorio Selser: “Sandino general de hombres libres” (1955), a title that reproduces the name of Henri Barbusse and “The small local army: Mexico-Nicaragua operation” (1958). However, more than decades before, Sandino's anti-colonial gesture used to have a literary project in the works of Nicaraguan writers: Hernan Robleto publishes “Sangre en el tropico. The soap opera of the intervention in Nicaragua. ” (1930) and Salomón de la Selva (2016), “The war of Sandino the naked pueblo” (1935).