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Author Ching, Erik Kristofer, author

Title Stories of civil war in El Salvador : a battle over memory / Erik Ching
Published Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, 2017

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Contents Setting the stage: El Salvador's long twentieth century -- The aggrieved minority: civilian elites -- The republic will live as long as the army lives: military officers -- The awakening: guerrilla comandantes before the civil war -- The reckoning: guerrilla comandantes during and after the civil war -- Orders are orders: the rank and file
Summary El Salvador's civil war began in 1980 and ended twelve bloody years later. It saw extreme violence on both sides. Examining El Salvador's vibrant life-story literature written in the aftermath of this terrible conflict - including memoirs and testimonials - Erik Ching seeks to understand how the war has come to be remembered and rebattled by Salvadorans and what that means for their society today
Notes Previously issued in print: 2016
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Audience Specialized
Notes Online resource; title from home page (viewed on December 7, 2016)
Subject Collective memory -- El Salvador -- History -- 20th century
Group identity -- El Salvador -- History -- 20th century
Social classes -- El Salvador -- History -- 20th century
Collective memory.
Group identity.
Politics and government.
Social classes.
Guerilla
Arbeiter
Armut
Bürgerkrieg in El Salvador
Elite
Gruppenidentität
Kollektives Gedächtnis
Offizier
Soziale Klasse
SUBJECT El Salvador -- History -- Civil War, 1979-1992. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85041474
El Salvador -- Politics and government -- 1979-1992. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85041480
Subject El Salvador.
El Salvador
Genre/Form History.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781469628684
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9781469628677
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