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    "title": "Writing in the Aftermath of War: Literature and Disenchantment in Postwar Central America",
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    "abstract": "<p>This article examines the challenges faced by Central American writers during a period of profound cultural, political, and economic change, as Central America transitioned from an era of civil war and revolutionary struggle to one of peace, democracy, and neoliberal state-building, spanning from the 1990s to the 2010s. At the core of this change was a pervasive sense of disenchantment, understood not merely as disillusionment with the failures of the peacebuilding process but as a hollowing out of society’s capacity to envision Central American reality on a broader and more meaningful scale. This deeper, more intractable aspect of disenchantment and its implications for the literary enterprise are the focus of this article. I argue that the forces shaping Central America’s postwar modernity have profoundly undermined the groundwork of affectivity, imagination, and memory that literature’s humanizing potential depends on. As a result, Central American writers face the paradoxical task of upholding their literary vocation when literature’s power to produce aesthetic and emancipatory experiences is in decline.</p>",
    "language": "eng",
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        "name": "Creative Commons Attribution 4.0",
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        "text": "Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.\r\n\r\nNo additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.",
        "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0"
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            "word": "Central America"
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            "word": "Literature"
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            "word": "postwar disenchantment"
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            "word": "Modernity"
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            "first_name": "Nanci",
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            "last_name": "Buiza",
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    "date_submitted": "2025-06-25T16:22:43.311000Z",
    "date_accepted": "2025-06-25T16:25:26.083000Z",
    "date_published": "2025-06-25T20:51:06Z",
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