| Salvador Contributor(s): Didion, Joan (Author) |
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ISBN: 0679751831 ISBN-13: 9780679751830 Publisher: Vintage OUR PRICE: $14.40 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: April 1994 Annotation: In 1982, Didion traveled to El Salvador at the height of the ghastly civil war. From battlefields to body dumps, she trained a merciless eye not only on the terror but also on the depredations and evasions of our own country's foreign policy. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Latin America - Central America - Political Science | International Relations - General - History | Latin America - South America |
| Dewey: 972.840 |
| LCCN: 93042217 |
| Series: Vintage International |
| Physical Information: 0.31" H x 4.86" W x 8.32" (0.27 lbs) 112 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Latin America |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Terror is the given of the place. The place is El Salvador in 1982, at the ghastly height of its civil war. The writer is Joan Didion, who delivers an anatomy of that country's particular brand of terror--its mechanisms, rationales, and intimate relation to United States foreign policy. Everything Didion] writes grows out of close observation of the social landscape of El Salvador. And it is quite impossible to deny the artistic brilliance of her reportage. She brings the country to life. --The New York Times As ash travels from battlefields to body dumps, interviews a puppet president, and considers the distinctly Salvadoran grammar of the verb to disappear, Didion gives us a book that is germane to any country in which bloodshed has become a standard tool of politics. |