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    "Already Having Forgotten:" Violence, Its Memory, and Political Identity in El Salvador

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    Dunlap, Margaret
    Date
    2014-04-25
    Type
    Thesis
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    http://hdl.handle.net/11005/3611
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    University of the South Senior Honors Thesis; History Department, University of the South, honors thesis; El Salvador; Violence; Collective memory; El Salvador Civil War
    Abstract
    El Salvador suffered from a brutal civil war from approximately 1980 until the signing of the Peace Accords in 1992. Civil war identities were formed by the incremental experience of violence, solidified by the post-conflict amnesty, and subsequently incorporated into a political landscape that persists today. While there is a pervasive sense that “the past is the past,” civil war identities continue to be salient determinants in political decision making for both voters and politicians. Through an examination of a series of interviews conducted by the author in 2013, supplemented by other primary and secondary sources, the argument is made that the polarization of current Salvadoran political identity is a result of past experiences of violence and the way past violence is collectively remembered.
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