Solentiname—the End

Abstract

is Nicaragua's leading poet as well as being a priest committed to social change. Until October 1977 he lived on the island of Mancarron in the Solentiname archipelago in the Lake of Nicaragua, where he had organised a community among the local peasants. In that month he was accused by the authorities of instigating an uprising in neighbouring San Carlos, in which members of the Sandinista Liberation Front and government troops clashed. A warrant for Cardenal's arrest was issued in November 1977, and he went into exile in Costa Rica. The Nicaraguan National Guard meanwhile occupied the island, transforming the small local church into a prison. They destroyed all the handicraft workshops of the community as well as Cardenal's library and home. The members of the Solentiname community, like Cardenal himself, who used to be a pacifist, have now dedicated themselves to the revolutionary struggle in Nicaragua.

Religion and Revolutionary We‐Ness: Religious Discourse, Speech Acts, and Collective Identity in Prerevolutionary Nicaragua

“…[And w]hen the time came, these young men and women fought with bravery, but also as Christians. (Cardenal :13)…”

“…We have also consulted other published materials associated with our primary data source. These sources include the remaining three volumes of The Gospel of Solentiname (Cardenal 1982a, 1982b, 1982c), retrospective and contemplative accounts about Solentiname (Cardenal , , , , ; Jiménez ; Pring‐Mill ; Randall , ; Vivas ), and recent oral history projects on Solentiname participants (Dueñas García de Polavieja ; Pérez ) as well as other available testimonial and secondary sources that explore the role of religion in the prerevolutionary period (Baltodano ; Belli ; Bradstock ; Cabestrero , ; Clos ; Dodson and O'Shauhnessy ; Foroohar ; Girardi ; Girardi, Forcano, and Vigil 1987; Instituto Historico Centroamericano ; Kirk ; Montoya ; Mulligan ; Rodríguez García ; Rosales ; Sabia ; Williams ). It should be noted that all Spanish to English translations have been done by the author.…”

The Bible, religious storytelling, and revolution: The case of Solentiname, Nicaragua

“…Because of the word limitation that is typical of a journal article the following lists of references are partial. On published recollections about Solentiname, see Agudelo and Arcia (1982), Cardenal (1979b, 1987, 2003), and Pring-Mill (1979). On interview based research on Solentinameños, see De Polavieja (2011, 2012), Jiménez (2006), Pérez (2014), and Randall (1983).…”