Post Conflict Central American Literature

Author : Yvette Aparicio
Publisher : Bucknell University Press
Page : 183 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2013-11-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781611485486

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Post-Conflict Central American Literature by Yvette Aparicio Pdf

Post-Conflict Central American Literature: Searching for Home and Longing to Belong studies often-overlooked contemporary poetry. Through the exploration of poetry and a select number of short stories, this book contemplates the meanings of home, belonging, and the homeland in post-conflict, globalizing, and neoliberal El Salvador, Nicaragua, and Costa Rica. Aparicio analyzes literary representations of and meditations on the current conditions as well as the recent pasts of Central American homelands. Additionally, the book highlights aesthetic renditions of home at the same time that it engages with and is grounded in contemporary Central American cultures, politics, and societies. In effect, this book contests hegemonic and apparently commonsense views that assert that globalization produces global citizenship and globalized experiences. Instead it argues that a palpable desire for home and belonging survives and thrives in rapidly globalizing Central American homelands.

Author : Astvaldur Astvaldsson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Caribbean literature
ISBN : 1634850785

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Violence and Endurance by Astvaldur Astvaldsson Pdf

This is a volume of essays on post-civil war Central American narrative, bringing together leading experts in Central American literary and cultural studies from the USA, Central America and Europe to access recent developments in the regions artistic output including the emergence of Mayan literature and the criticism it has received inside and outside Central America. The authors draw on the pioneering (though often scattered and difficult to locate) academic work that has been produced so far, and aspire to bring it into focus to produce its own coherent body of criticism as well as point out themes and avenues for future research in the field. The essays address issues that are crucial for the understanding of what has been happening in Central American literature since the late 1980s, and how it relates to earlier literary output in the region. Hence, this book significantly contributes to the knowledge and understanding of Central American textuality over the last few decades, offering new insights into the development of both literary content and aesthetic quality. The main focus is on post-civil war literature, and how it tends to be different in content and style from literature published during the long years of social conflict and armed struggle. While all the essays focus on the main topic, they are wide-ranging, covering literature from the five countries most affected by civil war: Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua and Costa Rica.

Author : Chris Andrews,Matt McGuire
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2016-04-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317425052

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Post-Conflict Literature by Chris Andrews,Matt McGuire Pdf

This book brings together a variety of perspectives to explore the role of literature in the aftermath of political conflict, studying the ways in which writers approach violent conflict and the equally important subject of peace. Essays put insights from Peace and Conflict Studies into dialog with the unique ways in which literature attempts to understand the past, and to reimagine both the present and the future, exploring concepts like truth and reconciliation, post-traumatic memory, historical reckoning, therapeutic storytelling, transitional justice, archival memory, and questions about victimhood and reparation. Drawing on a range of literary texts and addressing a variety of post-conflict societies, this volume charts and explores the ways in which literature attempts to depict and make sense of this new philosophical terrain. As such, it aims to offer a self-conscious examination of literature, and the discipline of literary studies, considering the ability of both to interrogate and explore the legacies of political and civil conflict around the world. The book focuses on the experience of post-Apartheid South Africa, post-Troubles Northern Ireland, and post-dictatorship Latin America. The recent history of these regions, and in particular their acute experience of ethno-religious and civil conflict, make them highly productive contexts in which to begin examining the role of literature in the aftermath of social trauma. Rather than a definitive account of the subject, the collection defines a new field for literary studies, and opens it up to scholars working in other regional and national contexts. To this end, the book includes essays on post-1989 Germany, post-9/11 United States, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Sierra Leone, and narratives of asylum seeker/refugee communities. This volume’s comparative frame draws on well-established precedents for thinking about the cultural politics of these regions, making it a valuable resource for scholars of Comparative Literature, Peace and Conflicts Studies, Human Rights, Transitional Justice, and the Politics of Literature.

Author : Gloria Elizabeth Chacón,Mónica Albizúrez Gil
Publisher : Modern Language Association
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2022-06-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781603295895

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Teaching Central American Literature in a Global Context by Gloria Elizabeth Chacón,Mónica Albizúrez Gil Pdf

Central America has a long history as a site of cultural and political exchange, from Mayan and Nahua trade networks to the effects of Spanish imperialism, capitalism, and globalization. In Teaching Central American Literature in a Global Context, instructors will find practical, interdisciplinary, and innovative pedagogical approaches to the cultures of Central America that are adaptable to various fields of study. The essays map out classroom lessons that encourage students to relate writings and films to their own experience of global interconnectedness and to read critically the history that binds Central America to the United States, Mexico, and the Caribbean. In the context of debates about immigration and a growing Central American presence in the United States, this book provides vital resources about the region's cultural production and covers trends in Central American literary studies including Mayan and other Indigenous literatures, modernismo, Jewish and Afro-descendant literatures, nineteenth- and twentieth-century literature, and contemporary texts and films. This volume contains discussion of the following authors, filmmakers, and public figures: Humberto Ak'abal, María José Álvarez and Martha Clarissa Hernández, Dennis Ávila, Abner Benaim, Jayro Bustamante, Berta Cáceres, Isaac Esau Carrillo Can, Jennifer Cárcamo, Horacio Castellanos Moya, Quince Duncan, Jacinta Escudos, Regina José Galindo, Francisco Gavidia, Francisco Goldman, Enrique Gómez Carrillo, Gaspar Pedro González, Carlos "Cubena" Guillermo Wilson, Eduardo Halfon, Tatiana Huezo, Florence Jaugey, Hernán Jimenez, Óscar Martínez, Victor Montejo, Marisol Ceh Moo, Victor Perera, Archbishop Óscar Romero, José Coronel Urtecho, and Marcela Zamora.

Author : Rachel Hatcher
Publisher : Springer
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2018-05-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783319897851

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The Power of Memory and Violence in Central America by Rachel Hatcher Pdf

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 many victims does violence to those victims, while remembering and giving testimony about the past can be cathartic for survivors, relatives, and even for perpetrators. This project will appeal to readers interested in development, societies in transition, global peace studies, and Central American studies.

Author : Deborah N. Cohn
Publisher : Vanderbilt University Press
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : History
ISBN : 9780826518040

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The Latin American Literary Boom and U.S. Nationalism During the Cold War by Deborah N. Cohn Pdf

How the dissemination of Latin American literature in the U.S. was "caught between the desire to support the literary revolution of the Boom writers and the fear of revolutionary politics" (John King).

Author : Andrew Hammond
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 826 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2020-09-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783030389734

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The Palgrave Handbook of Cold War Literature by Andrew Hammond Pdf

This book offers a comprehensive guide to global literary engagement with the Cold War. Eschewing the common focus on national cultures, the collection defines Cold War literature as an international current focused on the military and ideological conflicts of the age and characterised by styles and approaches that transcended national borders. Drawing on specialists from across the world, the volume analyses the period’s fiction, poetry, drama and autobiographical writings in three sections: dominant concerns (socialism, decolonisation, nuclearism, propaganda, censorship, espionage), common genres (postmodernism, socialism realism, dystopianism, migrant poetry, science fiction, testimonial writing) and regional cultures (Asia, Africa, Oceania, Europe and the Americas). In doing so, the volume forms a landmark contribution to Cold War literary studies which will appeal to all those working on literature of the 1945-1989 period, including specialists in comparative literature, postcolonial literature, contemporary literature and regional literature.

Author : Sophie Esch
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2023-10-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781501391897

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Central American Literatures as World Literature by Sophie Esch Pdf

Challenging the notion that Central American literature is a marginal space within Latin American literary and world literary production, this collection positions and discusses Central American literature within the recently revived debates on world literature. This groundbreaking volume draws on new scholarship on global, transnational, postcolonial, translational, and sociological perspectives on the region's literature, expanding and challenging these debates by focusing on the heterogenous literatures of Central America and its diasporas. Contributors discuss poems, testimonios, novels, and short stories in relation to center-periphery, cosmopolitan, and Internationalist paradigms. Central American Literatures as World Literature explores the multiple ways in which Central American literature goes beyond or against the confines of the nation-state, especially through the indigenous, Black, and migrant voices.

Author : Jennifer Carolina Gómez Menjívar
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2023-05-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781438492834

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Black in Print by Jennifer Carolina Gómez Menjívar Pdf

Black in Print examines the role of narrative, from traditional writing to new media, in conversations about race and belonging in the isthmus. It argues that the production, circulation, and consumption of stories has led to a trans-isthmian imaginary that splits the region along racial and geographic lines into a white-mestizo Pacific coast, an Indigenous core, and a Black Caribbean. Across five chapters, Jennifer Carolina Gómez Menjívar identifies a series of key moments in the history of the development of this imaginary: Independence, Intervention, Cold-War, Post-Revolutionary, and Digital Age. Gómez Menjívar's analysis ranges from literary beacons such as Rubén Darío and Miguel Ángel Asturias to less studied intellectuals such as Wingston González and Carl Rigby. The result is a fresh approach to race, the region, and its literature. Black in Print understands Central American Blackness as a set of shifting coordinates plotted on the axes of language, geography, and time as it moves through print media.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2021-04-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004460430

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Latinidad at the Crossroads by Anonim Pdf

Latinidad at the Crossroad: Insights into Latinx identity in the Twenty-First Century encompasses an interdisciplinary perspective on the complex range of latinidades and simultaneously advocates a more flexible (re)definition of the term that may overcome static collective representations of identity, ethnicity and belonging.

Author : Mauricio Espinoza,Miroslava Arely Rosales Vásquez,Ignacio Sarmiento
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2023-11-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780816551934

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Central American Migrations in the Twenty-First Century by Mauricio Espinoza,Miroslava Arely Rosales Vásquez,Ignacio Sarmiento Pdf

The reality of Central American migrations is broad, diverse, multidirectional, and uncertain. It also offers hope, resistance, affection, solidarity, and a sense of community for a region that has one of the highest rates of human displacement in the world. Central American Migrations in the Twenty-First Century tackles head-on the way Central America has been portrayed as a region profoundly marked by the migration of its people. Through an intersectional approach, this volume demonstrates how the migration experience is complex and affected by gender, age, language, ethnicity, social class, migratory status, and other variables. Contributors carefully examine a broad range of topics, including forced migration, deportation and outsourcing, intraregional displacements, the role of social media, and the representations of human mobility in performance, film, and literature. The volume establishes a productive dialogue between humanities and social sciences scholars, and it paves the way for fruitful future discussions on the region’s complex migratory processes. Contributors Guillermo Acuña Andrew Bentley Fiore Bran-Aragón Tiffanie Clark Mauricio Espinoza Hilary Goodfriend Leda Carolina Lozier Judith Martínez Alicia V. Nuñez Miroslava Arely Rosales Vásquez Manuel Sánchez Cabrera Ignacio Sarmiento Gracia Silva Carolina Simbaña González María Victoria Véliz

Author : Daniel Noemi Voionmaa
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2022-08-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781009191227

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Surveillance, the Cold War, and Latin American Literature by Daniel Noemi Voionmaa Pdf

Surveillance, the Cold War, and Latin American Literature examines secret police reports on Gabriel García Márquez, Pablo Neruda, Octavio Paz, Elena Poniatowska, José Revueltas, Otto René Castillo, Carlos Cerda, and other writers, from archives in Mexico, Chile, Guatemala, Uruguay, the German Democratic Republic, and the USA. Combining literary and cultural analysis, history, philosophy, and history of art, it establishes a critical dialogue between the spies' surveillance and the writers' novels, short stories, and poems, and presents a new take on Latin American modernity, tracing the trajectory of a modern gaze from the Italian Renaissance to the Cold War. It traces the origins of today's surveillance society with sense of urgency and consequence that should appeal to academic and non-academic readers alike throughout the Americas, Europe and beyond.

Author : Cynthia Arnson
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0804776687

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In the Wake of War by Cynthia Arnson Pdf

In the Wake of War assesses the consequences of civil war for democratization in Latin America, focusing on questions of state capacity. Contributors focus on seven countries--Colombia, El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti, Mexico, Nicaragua, and Peru--where state weakness fostered conflict and the task of state reconstruction presents multiple challenges. In addition to case studies, the book explores cross-cutting themes including the role of the international community in supporting peace, the explosion of post-war criminal and social violence, and the value of truth and historical clarification. This book completes a fifteen-year project, "Program on Comparative Peace Processes in Latin America," which also led to the 1999 publication of the book Comparative Peace Processes in Latin America.

Author : María Herrera-Sobek,Francisco Lomelí,Luz Angélica Kirschner
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2021-02-25
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000359732

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Human Rights in the Americas by María Herrera-Sobek,Francisco Lomelí,Luz Angélica Kirschner Pdf

This interdisciplinary book explores human rights in the Americas from multiple perspectives and fields. Taking 1492 as a point of departure, the text explores Eurocentric historiographies of human rights and offer a more complete understanding of the genealogy of the human rights discourse and its many manifestations in the Americas. The essays use a variety of approaches to reveal the larger contexts from which they emerge, providing a cross-sectional view of subjects, countries, methodologies and foci explicitly dedicated toward understanding historical factors and circumstances that have shaped human rights nationally and internationally within the Americas. The chapters explore diverse cultural, philosophical, political and literary expressions where human rights discourses circulate across the continent taking into consideration issues such as race, class, gender, genealogy and nationality. While acknowledging the ongoing centrality of the nation, the volume promotes a shift in the study of the Americas as a dynamic transnational space of conflict, domination, resistance, negotiation, complicity, accommodation, dialogue, and solidarity where individuals, nations, peoples, institutions, and intellectual and political movements share struggles, experiences, and imaginaries. It will be of interest to all scholars and students of InterAmerican studies and those from all disciplines interested in Human Rights.

Author : Helen Schooley
Publisher : Longman Publishing Group
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : History
ISBN : UVA:X001186211

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Conflict in Central America by Helen Schooley Pdf