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

Andreas Beer received a PhD in American Studies in 2014 and is now a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Constance, Germany. His research interests include transnational entanglements in antebellum America (especially with Latin America), literary and social practices in contemporary protest movements, and processes of indigenous identification and subalternity in the American hemisphere. His latest publication is (together with Gesa Mackenthun): Fugitive Knowledges. The Preservation and Loss of Knowledges in Cultural Contact Zones (2015).

• Introduction: Transnational Perspective on the Nicaraguan Filibuster Episode.- Chapter One: Conceptualizing the Filibuster(o)s.- Chapter Two: The Nicaraguan Press and El Nicaraguense.- Chapter Three: Discursive Voyages between the US and Nicaragua.- Chapter Four: Between Omnipresence and Oblivion: The Filibusters in Transnational Collective Memories and Nationalist Historiographies.- In Lieu of a Conclusion.