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A Transnational Analysis of Representations of the US Filibusters in Nicaragua, 1855-1857

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-28352-4

ISBN: 978-3-319-28351-7

Publisher: Springer International Publishing - Springer Journals

Oct 8, 2016

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A Transnational Perspective on the Nicaraguan Filibuster Episode

Beer, Andreas

Pages: 1 –24

[Every tourist who visits the Honduran town of Trujillo on the Caribbean coast will notice (and probably visit) the impressive Fort Santa Bárbara which dominates the bay. Right outside its main entrance the visitor might come across a curious commemorative stone in the pasture surrounding the...
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Conceptualizing the Filibuster(o)s

Beer, Andreas

Pages: 25 –67

[In the 1904 novel Cabbages and Kings by O. Henry, Clancy—one of the colorful characters of the fictitious Central American republic of Anchuria—reminiscences about the time he tried his hand at “filibustering.” On a New Orleans dock Clancy accidentally stumbles over boxes of guns being loaded...
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The Nicaraguan Press and El Nicaraguense

Beer, Andreas

Pages: 69 –107

[In his hugely successful and widely read travel narrative Incidents of Travel in Central America, Chiapas and Yucatán from 1841, John Lloyd Stephens describes how his arrival in Granada, Nicaragua, was greeted with enthusiasm, and how he was congratulated on his recent “escape from prison” in...
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Discursive Voyages Between the United States and Nicaragua

Beer, Andreas

Pages: 109 –181

[When the filibusters arrived in Nicaragua in mid-1855 and rapidly began to establish themselves as its dominant voice in the USA, the country had already reaped headlines in the US media for a number of years. The majority of these accounts was produced in the form of travel narratives. Most...
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Between Omnipresence and Oblivion. The Filibusters in Transnational Collective Memories and Nationalist Historiographies

Beer, Andreas

Pages: 183 –199

[From its inception, the Nicaraguan postwar official organ Gaceta Oficial published articles demonizing Walker and his filibusters. In an article of August 4, 1857 they are seen to come over the country like a disease: “as a consequence of the war [of the 1850s] the cholera arrived and massacred...
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In Lieu of a Conclusion

Beer, Andreas

Pages: 201 –207

[The present study aims at critically examining the transnational representations of the filibuster expedition to Nicaragua in the years 1855–1857 as well as this incident’s historical context and the repercussions these representations have enjoyed. Putting the filibuster publication El...

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