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Title

• Remembering a massacre in El Salvador : the Insurrection of 1932, Roque Dalton, and the politics of historical memory / Héctor Lindo-Fuentes, Erik Ching, and Rafael A. Lara-Martínez.

Author

Lindo-Fuentes, Héctor, 1952-

Publication

Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 2007.

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Additional Authors

• Ching, Erik Kristofer
• Lara Martínez, Rafael

Description

xviii, 411 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Summary

"In January 1932, thousands of peasants in western El Salvador rose up in armed rebellion. Armed mostly with machetes and a few guns, they attacked military garrisons, occupied towns, and looted or destroyed businesses, government buildings, and private homes. In response, the army and local paramilitary bands killed thousands of citizens in a few days, most of them innocent of any involvement in the rebellion. Recalled as a massacre, the government's actions are regarded as one of the most extreme cases of state-sponsored repression in modern Latin American history." "Remembering a Massacre in El Salvador examines national and international historical memories of the events of 1932 and the factors that determined those memories. It also analyzes Miguel Marmol, by Roque Dalton, a well-known and influential narrative of the 1932 Matanza and one of the most important texts in modern Salvadoran history. The authors employ an array of primary evidence, including the personal archive of Roque Dalton - made available for the first time by the Dalton family - to argue that a systematic look at rivaling memories of the Matanza reveals the close association between historical narratives and political action. The book is complemented by a valuable appendix of primary documents that reveal the evolving memories of these important events in 1932."--BOOK JACKET.

Series Statement

• Diálogos

Uniform Title

Diálogos (Albuquerque, N.M.)

Subject

• Collective memory > El Salvador > History > 20th century
• Dalton, Roque, 1935-1975
• El Salvador > Historiography. > Revolution, 1932
• El Salvador > History > Revolution, 1932
• Mármol, Miguel

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 381-397) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

The uprising and the Matanza of 1932 -- The historical background -- The life and writings of Roque Dalton prior to Miguel Marmol -- Dalton, Marmol, and the notebooks -- Left-wing politics and memories of 1932 -- Right-wing politics and memories of 1932 -- Roque Dalton, excerpt from 'Testimony of the Committed Generation', La Prensa Grafica, 1957 -- Roque Dalton, excerpt from El intelectual y la sociedad, 1969 -- Roque Dalton, excerpt from El Salvador, 1963 -- Roque Dalton, excerpt from the introduction to El Salvador : Monografia, 1965 -- Roque Dalton, excerpts from 'People, Places, and Events of 1932', Historias prohibidas del Pulgarcito, 1974 -- Roque Dalton/Miguel Marmol, excerpts from Miguel Marmol, 1972 -- Roque Dalton/Miguel Marmol, selection from Dalton's handwritten notes on the 1932 uprising -- Jorge Fernandez Anaya's report on El Salvador, September 1930 -- Report by Comrade H before Caribbean Bureau of Investigation, late 1932 -- Reply by Comrade R to Comrade H, Caribbean Bureau of Investigation, late 1932 -- Response by Comrade H, Caribbean Bureau of Investigation, late 1932 -- Report on El Salvador from Santa Ana Comrades, 1936 -- Miguel Marmol's brief historical notes on the labor movement in El Salvador, 1948 -- David Luna, excerpt from 1963 Tribuna Libre, 'The Uprising of 1932' -- Roque Dalton, excerpt from unpublished 1972 manuscript on the history of the Communist Party of El Salvador -- 'A Landowner's Account', 1932 -- Message of President Hernandez Martinez before the National Assembly, February 1932 -- Excerpts from Joaquin Mendez, Los succesos comunistas, 1932 -- Excerpts from Jorge Schlesinger's Revolucion comunista, 1946 -- 'How is a Dictatorship Born?', editorial from La Tribuna, 1952 -- Excerpt from Enrique Cordova's Memoir, 'General Maximiliano Hernandez Martinez', written in 1960s -- 'Is Confrontation Inevitable?', editorial by Sidney Mazzini in Diario de Hoy, 1977.

ISBN

• 9780826336040 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 0826336043 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2007012888

OCLC

122424174

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library