Poets & Prophets of the Resistance

Poets and Prophets of the Resistance offers a ground-up history and fresh interpretation of the polarization and mobilization that brought El Salvador to the eve of civil war in 1980. Challenging the dominant narrative that university students and political dissidents primarily formed the Salvadoran guerrillas, Joaquín Chávez considers the historical context of El Salvador's socioeconomic and political crises of the 1970s, arguing that those structural upheavals fomented a groundswell of urban and peasant intellectuals who collaborated to spur larger revolutionary social movements.

Joaquín M. Chávez is Associate Professor of History at the University of Illinois at Chicago.

Acknowledgments
Introduction: Intellectuals of the Resistance
Chapter One: Dreaming of Reform
Chapter Two: University Apostles
Chapter Three: Peasant Intellectuals in Chalatenango
Chapter Four: La Masacuata's War
Chapter Five: The Making of the Internal Enemy
Chapter Six: Insurgent Intellectuals
Chapter Seven: Crisis and Rural Insurgency
Conclusion: From Resistance to War
Acronyms
Diagrams
Notes
Bibliography
Index