History of the Anti-Imperialist Essay and Literature in Nicaragua: An Approach to the Concepts of Sovereignty and Anti-Imperialism from Essayist and Literary Memory

Abstract

The geopolitical history of Central America, and in particular that of Nicaragua, has been compromised by the question of imperialism. Its geographical position, similar to that of Panama, has ensured that the country’s great historical events such as indigenous resistance, independence, the National War, the Yankee intervention and the Sandinista Popular Revolution, are events with a marked anti-imperialist character and defense of sovereignty that in literary and essayist memory have not gone unnoticed. This article aims to demonstrate that both the essay and the anti-imperialist literature in Nicaragua compose a fairly broad corpus of historical memory that is susceptible to being conceptualized and analyzed as a movement or tendency within the literary and essayistic expressions of this Central American country.