El artista como historiador. El lugar crítico de la literatura frente a algunos fenómenos sociales e históricos en El Salvador

Abstract

The present investigative exercise trys to confront the official history of The War of the Hundred Hours, between the countries of El Salvador and Honduras in 1969, through the literary work of Roque Dalton, which, based on the testimony and other literary uses, allows giving voice to those who have been silenced by official history. Art provides a scene in which popular knowledge dialogues, facing the different contexts in which education allows the reading and interpretation of the concrete realities of a country. On the other hand, literature, capable of breaking with the boundaries of the objective truth of history, thanks to the capacity of enunciation of the poet within discursive spheres of history and literature, achieve to give voice to those who have been silenced and deprived of the possibility of narrating their memory. Dalton, in "las historias prohibidas del pulgarcito", confronts the official version of the story, starting with the literary mixtures that compose his poems, which, from a critical perspective, confront the historical phenomenon of the hundred-hour war between El Salvador and Honduras.