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Title: One Day of Life by Bill Brow, Manlio Argueta ISBN: 0-679-73243-8 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 09 January, 1991 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (6 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: A look into Salvadorian life, from differing POV
Comment: A serious study of the Cold War generally entails the bitter ideological struggle of two superpowers trying to exert their spheres of influence over nearby countries. In this geopolitical struggle we are rarely confronted with the idea of military confrontation, with the great exception being the Cuban missile crisis. More often than not Central America has played a marginal role in our understanding of Cold War tensions. Central America makes an interesting case study because it makes a strong case for the development of Latin America as a geopolitical reserve of the United States, in the same way that the Soviet Union had its satellite states. The conflict of democracy versus socialism took the center stage in the days following the 1959 Cuban Revolution. More importantly, the 1979 triumph of the Frente Sandinista de Liberacion Nacional [FSLN] in Nicaragua paved the way for a conflict in neighboring El Salvador which would be anything but ideological. In this context, Manlio Argueta, a renowned Salvadorian writer took upon himself the task of viewing the Salvadorian civil war from the eyes of those who lived it. In One Day of Life, Argueta paints a gruesome picture of the harsh realities of the Cold War beyond those painted by White House speech writers. Argueta attempts to place the cold war in real terms, in a way that is chillingly real and shocking.
Argueta's One Day of Life takes place in a reality which is often obscured behind the larger context of a Soviet/American ideological struggle. Argueta's work is crucial to understanding the conflict of a country which was prominent in the media during the 1980's and which at the time was feared to be the next Vietnam. Written in 1980, Argueta's work is fictional, much like One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, but imbued with vivid and often harrowing details of the conditions that afflicted the Salvadorian people for 12 years. For the outsider, the Salvadorian civil war was a vicious conflict which resulted in the deaths of approximately 61,000 civilians, while anywhere from 750,000 to over a million Salvadorians migrated to the United States. While the numbers are significant, Argueta takes us into the minds of the Salvadorian psyche by looking across the social strata to peasants, insurgents, national guardsmen, and all those caught by uncertainty.
Rating: 4
Summary: A good introduction to the Struggle of the poor in El Salvad
Comment: This was my introduction to El Salvador and I am glad I choose this book. The writing was unique and kept me interested throughout. I am even more interested now about the struggles of the poor in El Salvador during the civil war and even today.
Rating: 4
Summary: Review of the book "One Day of Life"
Comment: To start off, "One Day of Life" is a marvelous book. A very shocking peice of truth in the history of El Salvador. The Book is peiced together by the stories of the people in a small town in El Salvador. Stories put as one to reveal the tradegies and poverty in Central American towns, where the people do not know their own rights as human beings. The time the story is set in, is 1936. A pre-war time where communism was being beaten and people were being beaten just as well for beliefs they might not have had. IF you wish to indulge yourself in a great book that shows the truth through the eyes of the poverty born world then this is the book for you. I highley reccomend you read this.
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Title: Self-Portrait of the Other by Herberto Padilla, Alexander Coleman, Herberto Habillo ISBN: 0374526559 Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux Pub. Date: December, 1990 List Price(USD): $22.00 |
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Title: CUZCATLAN-V253 by Manlio Argueta ISBN: 0394742532 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 12 May, 1987 List Price(USD): $8.95 |
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Title: Eva Peron: The Myths of a Woman by Julie M. Taylor ISBN: 0226791440 Publisher: University of Chicago Press (Trd) Pub. Date: October, 1996 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: Bitter Grounds : A Novel by Sandra Benitez ISBN: 0312195419 Publisher: Picador USA Pub. Date: 15 August, 1998 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: Sandino's Daughters: Testimonies of Nicaraguan Women in Struggle by Margaret Randall, Lynda Yanz ISBN: 0813522145 Publisher: Rutgers University Press Pub. Date: October, 1995 List Price(USD): $23.00 |
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