Gangster in guerilla face

A transnational mirror of production between the USA and El Salvador

Datos Bibliográficos

ID2401693
AutoresElana Zilberg (University of California San Diego, autor de correspondencia)
Año2007
Volumen7
Número1
Páginas37-57
Fecha de publicación2007-03-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaAnthropological Theory (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1463-4996 • E-ISSN: 1741-2641
EditorialSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/1463499607074289
OpenAlexW2077148286
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas26
Referencias citadas27

Doble cara (double/two-faced) is a key trope in Salvadoran political folklore. It is a folk theory of mimesis, which attempts to `master the absent presence of the other' through a discourse of conspiracy. The term has a history in the US-funded Salvadoran civil war. In this article, I consider how doble cara has come to be deployed around a new and pivotal social subject - Salvadoran immigrant gang youth deported from the USA - and how these deported youth emerge as a packed and displaced sign for the trauma of post-civil war violence, the failed promise of peace, and ongoing entanglements between the USA and El Salvador. The article is written in conversation with Begoña Aretxaga, who inspired many of the questions explored here

Art · Conversation · Face (sociological concept · Folklore · Literature · Media studies · Political science · Politics · Sign (mathematics · Social science · Sociology · Spanish Civil War · Subject (documents · Trope (literature · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Anthropology · Latin American and Latino Studies · Law · Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies