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.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lindo-Fuentes, Héctor, 1952-

Contributor:

Ching, Erik Kristofer.

Lara Martínez, Rafael

Class of 1932 Fund.

Series:

Diálogos (Albuquerque, N.M.)

Diálogos

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Dalton, Roque, 1935-1975.

Dalton, Roque.

Mármol, Miguel. Miguel Mármol.

Mármol, Miguel.

Collective memory.

History.

Historiography.

El Salvador--History--Revolution, 1932.

El Salvador.

El Salvador--History--Revolution, 1932--Historiography.

Collective memory--El Salvador--History--20th century.

Italy--Umbria.

Dalton, Roque, 1935-1975. Miguel Mármol.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xviii, 411 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 2007.

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"--Jacket.

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 381-397) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Class of 1932 Fund.

Other Format:

Online version: Lindo-Fuentes, Héctor, 1952- Remembering a massacre in El Salvador.

ISBN:

9780826336040

0826336043

OCLC:

122424174