Blood in the Water: Salvadoran Rivers of Testimony and Resistance

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Abstract

From the 1970s to the early 1990s the dominant forms of literary production in El Salvador, Guatemala, and Nicaragua were testimonial literature and literature of resistance. During this time period, all three of these Central American countries were embroiled in bloody civil wars, and the written word was employed on the cultural front as a means of denouncing and resisting various forms of oppression. For both historical and artistic reasons, rivers frequently play an important role in cultural production from and about this era and have thus become embedded in the complex web of ideological signifiers that comprises the discursive practices of Central American literature.

Original languageAmerican English
JournalWorld Languages Faculty Publications and Presentations
StatePublished - 1 Apr 2013

EGS Disciplines

  • Latin American Languages and Societies
  • Modern Languages

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