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Masculine/National Authorities; catholic/military citizenships Nicaragua 1930-1943

Gomez Lacayo, Juan Pablo
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1417697124

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2014, Doctor of Philosophy, Ohio State University, Spanish and Portuguese.
This dissertation analyzes the intersections between authority, culture, and citizenships in Nicaragua during the thirties and early forties of the twentieth century. I study such intersections in the positionality of three important sectors of Nicaraguan society: the intellectuals of the Movimiento Reaccionario, the organized catholic citizenships, and the National Guard. I analyze the discourses that these groups advertised publicly contributing to the sedimentation of a colonialist, a catholic and a masculine patron of authority. In order to analyze how governmental models results from reasoning about the relationships between authority and culture; I first analyze the thoughts of Movimiento Reaccionario, a cultural group conformed by catholic intellectual men. Second, I examine the geopolitical and gender position of this cultural group. With respect to the Movimiento Reaccionario, I argue that it is empathy and compromise with the extension of a colonial patron of authority in the formation of a national culture. Secondly, I locate a strong masculine position as the sign that produces history, culture, and society. I deepened the study of Reaccionarian positionality focusing in one of its leading and most prolific intellectuals: Pablo Antonio Cuadra. In the second part of the dissertation, I analyze the links between Catholicism and Nation and its effects in the configuration of citizenships. The archives used in this research are catholic culture magazines published in Nicaragua in the late thirties and early forties. The links between Catholicism and Nation created regulatory ideals that configured citizenships. Clericals and ecclesiastic agencies, masculine and feminine, defined the nation as catholic. Therefore, it was imperative to produce bodies on which such cultural signs were reflected. Last, I question the usefulness National Guard as a field of configuration of masculine citizenships to the national project. Such project began once the North American intervention ended in 1933. This study of the National Guard provides an exploration of some of the cultural changes in the statutes of citizenship and gender that were occurring in the National Guard, being this an important institution, for the direction that the country took in the coming decades.
Ileana Rodriguez, PhD (Advisor)
Fernando Unzueta, PhD (Committee Chair)
Laura Podalsky, PhD (Committee Member)
Juan Zevallos, PhD (Committee Member)
287 p.
Latin American Literature; Latin American Studies
Authority, Masculinities, Citizenships

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  • Gomez Lacayo, J. P. (2014). Masculine/National Authorities; catholic/military citizenships Nicaragua 1930-1943 [Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1417697124

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Gomez Lacayo, Juan. Masculine/National Authorities; catholic/military citizenships Nicaragua 1930-1943 . 2014. Ohio State University, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1417697124.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Gomez Lacayo, Juan. "Masculine/National Authorities; catholic/military citizenships Nicaragua 1930-1943 ." Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1417697124

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