Abstract
The violence and displacement of the Salvadoran civil war not only destroyed lives, but by dispersing the agents of collective memory it also threatened the foundations of community and identity. US Latina writers Demetria Martinez, Sandra Benitez, and Graciela Limon have begun to reconstruct the memory and history of El Salvador as a way to build a Latino/a community in the United States across national, cultural, and ethnic borders. They transform the Salvadoran body into a representation of the disappeared Salvadoran collective memory, an act of cultural restoration that illuminates the political meaning of the body in contemporary Latino/a literature. These novels point to an emerging intersection not only between art and war but between literature and human rights activism.
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