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Manlio Argueta: Poets and Volcanoes
"Through the voice of writer and survivor Manlio Argueta, El Salvador's turbulent historical era is revealed, a period when many artists and writers suffered imprisonment, persecution, and exile"--Container.
One Day of Life
Celebrated for the authenticity of its vernacular style and the incandescence of its lyricism, One Day of Life depicts a typical day in the life of a peasant family caught up in the terror and corruption of civil war in El Salvador. 5:30 A.M. in Chalate, a small rural town: Lupe, the grandmother of the Guardado family and the central figure of the novel, is up and about doing her chores. By 5:00 P.M. the plot of the novel has been resolved, with the Civil Guard's search for and interrogation of Lupe's young granddaughter, Adolfina. Told entirely from the perspective of the resilient women of the Guardado family, One Day of Life is not only a disturbing and inspiring evocation of the harsh realities of peasant life in El Salvador after fifty years of military exploitation; it is also a mercilessly accurate dramatization of the relationship of the peasants to both the state and the church. Translated from the Spanish by Bill Brow
A Place Called Milagro de la Paz
"Tells the story of the courage and strength of a single mother and her daughters, who persevere in the face of loss."--Page 4 of cover.
The Contestatory Nature of the Testimonial Novels by Manlio Argueta, Cuzcatlán Donde Bate la Mar Del Sur and Un Día en la Vida
This dissertation examines the ways in which the testimonial novels Cuzcatlan donde bate la Mar del Sur and Un dia en la vida, by Manlio Argueta, treat the repression of El Salvador during the 1970s and 1980s. A triadic approach demonstrates that these texts are contestatory in three ways: 1) their treatment of the socio-political, historical, and economic situation (by decrying the top-down oppression of El Salvador's rural poor by the authorities and elites); 2) their usage of narrative techniques that function in a symbolically anti-authoritarian manner; and 3) their implicitly positive valuation of campesino culture which serves as a rejection of the contemptuous attitude of it held by the dominant culture.
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Cuzcatlán
A rich, multi-generational novel that evokes the collective history of the Salvadoran peasantry.
La Piedra Mágica de la Chinchintora/ the Snake and the Magic Stone
La Chichintora es una culebra que vive en los campos de El Salvador. Ella posee en su cuerpo una piedra mágica que todos quieren tener. Pero para poder obtenerla tienen que ser buenos bailadores y retarla a un baile de cha cha cha, salsa, cumbia o danza azteca. El reconocido escritor salvadoreño Manlio Argueta ha escrito un cuento de la cultura salvadoreña que será disfrutado por chicos y grandes. La ilustradora Male Cuéllar nos presenta a una chinchitora bailadora y con mucha energía. ¿Quien ganará el reto de baile? Lee y descubre.
Once Upon a Time (bomb)
Once Upon a Time (Bomb) is a charming memoir of a young boy growing up in El Salvador. It tells the story of Alfonso Duque the Thirteenth, a youngster from a poverty-stricken family and a budding poet. Surrounded by hovering women-his mother, aunts, grandmothers, and sisters-little Alfonso still manages to enjoy boyish pranks and endure scraped elbows, knees, and ego while also discovering the pleasures of reading. The womenfolk laughingly describe him on his 'throne' atop the trees or back in the outhouse, where he often escapes to read. This work of innocence is set against a darker backdrop of the growing violence in the Salvadoran countryside and the news coming from the fronts of the Second World War. Argueta incorporates many of the best-loved local folktales into the narrative, the Siguanaba, Chinchintora the Snake, Theodora the Coyote, some of them personalized or hilariously adapted by the women to fit their own circumstances. In the book, the author works through memory, re-encounters a nostalgic past, re-creates paradise, and re-acquaints himself with his poetic roots after years of exile from poetry, his homeland, and the luxury of dreaming.
Representation, Reflection, and Reconciliation
This dissertation focuses on the life and works of the committed Salvadoran author Manlio Argueta. It traces pertinent themes in four of his novels, El valle de las hamacas (1969), Caperucita en la zona roja (1978), Milagro de La Paz (1994), and Siglo de O(g)ro (1997). This project traces how Argueta's representation of violence markedly transitions from a mimetic representation of violence that appeals to the senses and raises awareness of the exacerbating circumstances to a subdued and psychological representation of the consequences of the violence in the face of new violence and changing panoramas. It highlights three major moments of El Salvador's history that directly impacted the life...
Magic Dogs of the Volcanoes / Los Perros Mágicos de Los Volcanes
When the magic dogs who live on the volcanoes of El Salvador and protect the villagers from harm are pursued by wicked lead soldiers, they are aided by two ancient volcanoes.
