Heridas en la memoria: la guerra civil salvadoreña en el recuerdo de niñez de un pandillero.
This article analyzes the childhood memory of a gang member who grew up, from the mid-1970s through the 1980s, in the middle of El Salvador's civil war. Hector, the pseudonym I gave him, was a guerillero, soldier, emigrant, and also, when he became a teenager, a gang member. His story reflects...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | Spanish |
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Universidad de los Andes
2010-01-01
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| Series: | Historia Crítica |
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| Online Access: | http://historiacritica.uniandes.edu.co/view.php/643/index.php?id=643 |
| Summary: | This article analyzes the childhood memory of a gang member who grew up, from the mid-1970s through the 1980s, in the middle of El Salvador's civil war. Hector, the pseudonym I gave him, was a guerillero, soldier, emigrant, and also, when he became a teenager, a gang member. His story reflects a large number of historical processes. The aim of this article is to analyze this simultaneity of processes as a totality present in the life story of this person. To do so, I present Hector's testimony, framed in the context of the civil war. Then I use various concepts (like memory, violence, and institutionalization) to understand the story within the network of social relations in El Salvador. |
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| ISSN: | 0121-1617 1900-6152 |