REMONTING THE 32 The historical memory against the archive

Abstract

“Remoting 1932. Historical Memory against the Archive” analyzes the role that plays the Salvadoran writer Salarrué (1899-1975) during the key year of 1932. In the 21th century, the author symbolizes the emblem of an engaged writer denouncing the atrocities of the regime commanded by General Maximiliano Hernández Martínez (1931-1934; 1935-1939; 1939-1944) against a popular revolt in January 1932. For such a matter, the law of historical memory suppresses almost all-primary documentation of that key date. The current argument founds its thesis in only one of the author’s publications, erasing the ample archive, which would transform him into a cunning collaborator of martinez´s regine. The article restitutes the file obliterated in purpose by a historical memory anxious of oblivion.