After Stories: Transnational Intimacies of Postwar El Salvador

282 Pages·2022·8.172 MB·English

by  Irina Carlota Silber

Af t e r S t or ie s
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A F T ER STOR IE S
Tr an sn at ion a l Int im a cie s
of Post war El Salva d or
Irina Carlota Silber
Stanford University Press
Stanford, California
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Stanford University Press
Stanford, California
© 2022 by the Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University.
All rights reserved.
No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any
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information storage or retrieval system without the prior written permission of
Stanford University Press.
Printed in the United States of America on acid- free, archival- quality paper
ISBN 9781503609099 (cloth)
ISBN 9781503632172 (paper)
ISBN 9781503632189 (electronic)
Library of Congress Control Number: 2021052422
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data available upon request.
Cover photo: Reclaiming the fi elds, Chalatenango. Early 1990s. Ralph Sprenkels
Cover design: Rob Ehle
Typeset by Motto Publishing Services in 10.5/15 Adobe Garamond Pro
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For Antonio, Cenzo, and Inés
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CONTENTS
List of Figures ix
Preface xi
1 Before 1
2 Numbers 42
3 Bodies 72
4 Objects 102
5 After 132
Acknowledgments 167
Notes 173
References 219
Index 249
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FIGURES
Figure 1: Family, Chalatenango. Early 1990s. 6
Figure 2: Author in El Rancho, Chalatenango, 1997. 15
Figure 3: Repopulation, Chalatenango. Early 1990s. 22
Figure 4: Reclaiming the fi elds, Chalatenango. Early 1990s. 25
Figure 5: Children in the afternoon, El Rancho, Chalatenango, 1997. 36
Figure 6: Children waiting in the Grupo Escolar, El Rancho,
Chalatenango, 1997. 37
Figure 7: Infants of postwar, Chalatenango. Early 1990s. 40
Figure 8: Travel in Chalatenango, 1997. 51
Figure 9: Tweeting offi cial numbers. 61
Figure 10: Community festival and postwar play, Chalatenango.
Early 1990s. 137
Figure 11: Commemoration of child martyrs, Chalatenango.
Early 1990s. 158
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