"Hatcher''s thoughtful exegesis of memory politics in Guatemala and El Salvador highlights language''s power to shape how violent pasts are remembered or forgotten. By reconstructing the charged debates over concepts like "truth," "amnesty," and "reconciliation" in the aftermath of the two countries'' civil wars, her book makes a valuable contribution to the scholarly literature on how societies grapple with the legacies of state violence." (Kirsten Weld, Associate Professor, Harvard University, USA)

"Rachel Hatcher''s comparative analysis of sites and methods of remembering in Guatemala and El Salvador is both sensitive and engrossing. The richly detailed and aesthetic documentation of popular memory, palabras, and the people who wield them makes this volume an invaluable contribution to post-war memory studies." (Mneesha Gellman, Assistant Professor, Emerson College, USA)

"This book...shows the complicity or the deep silences of sectors that seek with multiple strategies to undermine the memory of those who faced genocide, massacres, sexual violence, forced disappearances or torture." (Irma A. Velásquez Nimatuj, Maya K''ichee'' Anthropologist, Guatemala)