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Stories of Civil War in El Salvador: A Battle over Memory

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El Salvador’s civil war started in 1980 and ended twelve bloody years later. It saw extreme violence on both sides, including the terrorizing and targeting of civilians by death squads, recruitment of child soldiers, and the death and disappearance of more than 75,000 people. Examining El Salvador’s vibrant life-story literature written Within the aftermath of this terrible conflict–including memoirs and testimonials–Erik Ching seeks to take into account how the war has come to be remembered and rebattled by Salvadorans and what that means for their society as of late.

Ching identifies four memory communities that dominate national postwar views: civilian elites, military officers, guerrilla commanders, and working class and poor testimonialists. Pushing distinct and divergent stories, these groups are as of late engaged in what Ching terms a “narrative battle” for keep watch over over the memory of the war. Their ongoing publications available on the market of ideas have a tendency to direct Salvadorans’ attempts to barter the war’s meaning and legacy, and Ching suggests that a more open, coordinated reconciliation process is needed on this postconflict society. Within the meantime, El Salvador, fractured by conflicting interpretations of its national trauma, is hindered in coping with the immediate problems posed by the nexus of neoliberalism, gang violence, and outmigration.

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