To rise in darkness
Subtitle: revolution, repression, and memory in El Salvador, 1920-1932
By: Jeffrey L. Gould and Aldo A. Lauria-Santiago.
Contributors: Lauria-Santiago, Aldo.
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Durham
Language: eng
Number of pages: 368
ISBN-13: 9780822342076; 9780822342281
Subjects: Massacres -- El Salvador -- History -- 20th century; Collective memory -- El Salvador -- History -- 20th century; El Salvador -- History -- Revolution, 1932
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [343]-354) and index.
Table of contents: title: Garden of despair : the political economy of class, land, and labor, 1920-1929; title: A bittersweet transition : politics and labor in the 1920s; title: Fiestas of the oppressed : the social geography and culture of mobilization; title: "Ese trabajo era enteramente de los naturales" : ethnic conflict and mestizaje in Western Salvador, 1914-1931; title: "To the face of the entire world" : repression and radicalization, September 1931-January 1932; title: Red ribbons and machetes : the Insurrection of January 1932; title: "They killed the just for the sinners" : the counterrevolutionary massacres; title: Memories of La Matanza : the political and cultural consequences of 1932.