Specters of war : the battle of mourning in postconflict Central America / Ignacio Sarmiento.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sarmiento, Ignacio, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Central American literature--21st century--History and criticism.

Central American literature.

Grief in literature.

War and society--El Salvador.

War and society.

War and society--Guatemala.

Physical Description:

xiv, 279 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Tucson : University of Arizona Press, 2025.

Summary:

"Specters of War analyzes how mourning has been expressed in postwar Salvadoran and Guatemalan fiction, theatre, and sites of memory"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction: the battle of mourning in postwar Central America

1. Sites of memory, sites of mourning: memorialization in post-conflict Central America

2. Staging mourning in postwar El Salvador: Jorgelina Cerritos's Ensayos sobre la memoria

3. What to do with the dead? The specters of war in Claudia Hernández's De fronteras

4. Somos la masa silenciosa: archival work and the work of mourning in Mónica Alizarin's Ita

5. Eduardo Halfon: a global struggle for mourning

Conclusions: whither mourning?

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Sarmiento, Ignacio, 1987- Specters of war

ISBN:

9780816554287

0816554285

9780816554270

0816554277

OCLC:

1453619180