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Central American fiction --- History and criticism --- History and criticism. --- Novela centroamericana. --- Novela centroamericana --- Historia y crítica --- Historia y crítica. --- Central American fiction - History and criticism

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Cicatrices provides an understanding of the mood in Central American fiction over the last five years. Many recent novels and short stories are aesthetic responses to a difficult social, political and economic landscape dominated by neoliberal adjustment, drug trafficking, corruption and the struggle to establish fully democratic societies. Herein is a mix of male and female authors spread across five Central American countries: Guatemala, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Costa Rica and Honduras. Thematic unity is provided by nomadism, migration and the inability to leave behind a violent past of armed conflict that bleeds into the present-scars that won't heal. An atmosphere of survival, exhaustion, dissipation and decay (in both the physical and moral sense) dominates, but also rays of hope: the writers testify to the triumph of the spirit as much as to its destruction. This vibrant literature speaks of existential crisis in a context of social precarity and lack of opportunity as people dis-embedded by civil war and its aftermath seek release and fulfillment through migration across borders into neighbouring countries or north to the United States or Europe. Whether external or internal, self-imposed or forced, migration brings in train the problem of mal-adaptation to new worlds and struggles with memory - an aesthetics of loss and solitude. Various narrative strategies are adopted to try to account for this contemporary social reality, including crime fiction as critical realism, as well as auto-fiction.

Central American fiction --- Social problems in literature. --- Emigration and immigration in literature. --- History and criticism.

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"In this book, Marileen La Haije offers a thorough and innovative analysis of the intersections between madness and trauma in recent Central American literature on (post)war. A central argument of her study is that these literary texts challenge the taboo of madness in Latin American contexts of memory, by showing that talking about madness does not necessarily lead to stigmatizing victims of political violence or disqualifying their stories about traumatic experiences. La Haije highlights the importance of including madness on the research agenda in the field of memory studies in Latin America"--

Central American fiction --- Mental illness in literature. --- Psychic trauma in literature. --- Collective memory in literature. --- History and criticism. --- Thematology --- Spanish-American literature --- anno 1900-1999 --- anno 2000-2099

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Central American fiction --- Central American fiction --- Literature and history --- Women and literature --- Women in literature. --- Women authors --- History and criticism. --- History and criticism. --- Alegría, Claribel --- Aguilar, Rosario, --- Belli, Gioconda, --- Lobo, Tatiana --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Criticism and interpretation.

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"In seven chapters, Craft argues for a new, generic recognition for what used to be known as 'political novels.' Discussion is generally convincing, well-researched, and occasionally revealing. The first two chapters and their conclusions are similar to accepted scholarly arguments. Craft is at her best when analyzing works by Claribel Alegría, Manlio Argueta, and Belli, in that order. More attention could have been given to Sergio Ramírez's development, which does not fit into the author's thesis, and to Rigoberto Menchú. A noteworthy error: Monterroso never wrote a book titled 'Mr. Taylor & Co.' (the actual title story is from the 1950s). The title refers to a Cuban selection of his stories"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.

Central American fiction --- Historical fiction, Central American --- Reportage literature, Central American --- Romance Literatures --- Languages & Literatures --- Spanish Literature --- Central American reportage literature --- Central American prose literature --- Central American historical fiction --- Central American literature --- History and criticism. --- History and criticism --- Alegría, Claribel --- Argueta, Manlio, --- Arías, Arturo, --- Belli, Gioconda, --- Flakoll, Claribel Alegría --- Alegría, Clarivel --- Alegría, C. --- Alegría Vides, Clara Isabel --- Criticism and interpretation.