Aldo A Lauria-Santiago

To Rise in Darkness

Revolution, Repression, and Memory in El Salvador, 1920-1932

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Produktbeschreibung

""To Rise in Darkness "tells the story of the 1932 Communist-led uprising in El Salvador and the violent repression that followed, one of the most consequential events in Latin American history. As a prelude to the widespread terror that would sweep throughout Central America during the Cold War, this killing is beginning to receive scholarly attention, yet "To Rise in Darkness "will be the touchstone for future discussion of the 1932 revolt and massacre. Based on painstaking research and exhibiting a sharp conceptual focus, this book will influence scholarship on the relationship between political mobilization, ideology, and violence for years to come."--Greg Grandin, author of "The Blood of Guatemala: A History of Race and Nation"

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 400
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juni 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 227mm x 156mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 555g
• ISBN-13: 9780822342281
• ISBN-10: 0822342286
• Artikelnr.: 23389161

Autorenporträt

Jeffrey L. Gould is James H. Rudy Professor of History and Director of the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies at the University of Indiana. His books include To Die in This Way: Nicaraguan Indians and the Myth of Mestizaje, 1880–1965, also published by Duke University Press. He is a co-producer and co-director of the documentary film Scars of Memory: El Salvador, 1932. Aldo A. Lauria-Santiago is Associate Professor of History and Chair of the Department of Latino and Hispanic Caribbean Studies at Rutgers University. He is the author of An Agrarian Republic: Commercial Agriculture and the Politics of Peasant Communities in El Salvador, 1823–1914 and a coeditor of Identity and Struggle at the Margins of the Nation-State: The Laboring Peoples of Central America and the Hispanic Caribbean, also published by Duke University Press.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface ix
1. Garden of Despair: the Political Economy of Class, Land, and Labor,
1920-1929 1
2. A Bittersweet Transition: Politics and Labor in the 1920s 32
3. Fiestas of the Oppressed: The Social Geography and Culture of
Mobilization 63
4. "Ese Trabajo Era Enteramente de los Naturales": Ethnic Conflict and
Mestizaje in Western Salvador, 1914-1931 99
5. "To the Face of the Entire World": Repression and Radicalization,
September 1931-January 1932 132
6. Red Ribbons and Machetes: The Insurrection of January 1932 170
7. "They Killed the Just for the Sinners": The Counterrevolutionary
Massacres 209
8. Memories of La Matanza: The Political and Cultural Consequences of 1932
240
Epilogue 275
Afterword 281
Notes 291
Bibliography 343
Index 355