The Power of Memory and Violence in Central America

• Main Author: Hatcher, Rachel (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: Latin America-Politics and government.; Public policy.; Economic development.; Social change.; Economic policy.; Latin American Politics.; Public Policy.; Development and Social Change.; Regional Development.; Development Policy.

This book explores the power of words in post-Peace El Salvador and Guatemala-their violent and equally liberating power. The volume explores the entire post-Peace Accords era in both Central American countries. In "post-conflict" settings, denying or forgetting the repressive past and its...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction: On the Calle del Olvido
• Chapter 1: The speakers, writers, painters, and plasterers
• Chapter 2: Schizophrenic memory in the land of La Eterna Primavera
• Chapter 3: Nunca Más in Guatemala
• Chapter 4: Verdad or olvido in El Pulgarcito de América
• Chapter 5: The past as monument in El Salvador
• Chapter 6: Contested discourse in El Salvador and Guatemala
• Conclusion: The power of words, and of remembering.