Sentimentalismo, Masculinidades, e Imaginarios de Progreso en El Salvador de Entresiglos (in Spanish)

Karina Zelaya is a Lecturer in the Dept. of Central American and Transborder Studies at CSUN, where she specializes in Salvadoran and Central American literature and culture. She is the author of a critical edition of the novel Roca-Celis, originally published in 1908 by politician and intellectual Manuel Delgado, and recently republished by Editorial El Venado Blanco (San Salvador, 2023). In her talk, Dr. Zelaya reads Roca-Celis in light of the debates around projects of modernization that circulated in El Salvador during the late 19th and early 20th centuries, emphasizing the central role that the production and export of coffee had in Central American national imaginaries about progress and modernity at the turn of the century.