Thursday Class 3/17/2016 The Country Under My Skin Before discussion: A brief historical view of pre-revolutionary Nicaragua, the video explains a bit about the involvement of the United States and how its intervention in Nicaragua eventually lead to the formation of the Sandinistas. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IuBNV3lpdZY 2:25 – 9:25 Discussion Topics: Do we, as …
I found all the readings assigned for this week very interesting, but I was most struck by “The Colonialism of the Present”, and his framing of the ongoing settler colonialism in Canada. I was relatively unfamiliar with the current struggles of indigenous peoples in Canada, although I assumed they would be relatively similar to what …
The Country Under My Skin by Gioconda Belli is definitely the most “biographical” of all the works we have seen so far, with the Nicaraguan Revolution of 1979 acting as an ever present backdrop to Belli’s very eventful life. However, Belli’s passion for and dedication to the Sandinista movement – from when she first truly …