Mucha Muchacha

Aug 20, 2024 | electricliterature.com | Jo Lou |Gina Balibrera |Mucha Muchacha |Leticia Hernández Linares

Reading Lists These writers create work that transcends token representation and instead offers visions of surprise, transformation, mischief, and the future For a long time, much of what was published about El Salvador was a grim monolith, authored by outsiders: gringo historians, mid-century anthropologists, Céline models. If you read Joan Didion’s terse little book on the place, Salvador, you might have the idea that “terror is the given of the place.” I could write for a long time about...