Document Type
Article
Publication Date
4-1-2013
Abstract
From the 1970s to the early 1990s the dominant forms of literary production in El Salvador, Guatemala, and Nicaragua were testimonial literature and literature of resistance. During this time period, all three of these Central American countries were embroiled in bloody civil wars, and the written word was employed on the cultural front as a means of denouncing and resisting various forms of oppression. For both historical and artistic reasons, rivers frequently play an important role in cultural production from and about this era and have thus become embedded in the complex web of ideological signifiers that comprises the discursive practices of Central American literature.
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This document was originally published by University of Minnesota in Hispanic Issues On Line. Copyright restrictions may apply.
Publication Information
Kane, Adrian Taylor. (2013). "Blood in the Water: Salvadoran Rivers of Testimony and Resistance". Hispanic Issues On Line, 12(Spring), 163-179.