Book review Stories of Civil War in El Salvador: a Battle Over Memory by Erik Ching
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El Salvador, historical memory, Civil War, Memory CommunitiesAbstract
Based on a extensive review of memoirs and testimonies of the Salvadoran Civil War, the author of this book stablishes the existence of four clearly discernible memory communities, defined in terms of their narrative patterns and their interpretations of the armed conflict: civilian elites, military officers, guerrilla leaderships, and rankand- file combatants. Although this approach in not free of debatable aspects, Erik Ching’s work constitutes a formidable study on the narrative representations of the civil war and the formation of historical memory in El Salvador
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