Salvador (Masterplots II: Nonfiction Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Joan Didion
- First Published: 1983
- Type of Work: Cultural criticism /current affairs
- Time of Work: 1982
- Setting: El Salvador
- Genres: Criticism, Nonfiction, Current affairs
- Subjects: United States or Americans, Journalism or journalists, Communism or communists, Politics, Revolutions, Death or dying, Central America or Central Americans, Democracy, Civil wars, International relations
Form and Content
In the summer of 1982, American novelist, essayist, and journalist Joan Didion visited the war-torn Central American nation of El Salvador; Salvador is the record of what she found there. Didion’s stay in El Salvador came at a time when the United States’ policy in this tiny republic was very much under fire, and her analysis never strays far from the essentially political question of what the United States government hopes to gain in a seemingly irreconcilable conflict. Part reporter’s notebook, part ironic travelogue, Salvador...
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