US Central Americans are destabilizing, reconceiving, and revitalizing the US Latina/o canon, and in doing so, they are forcing us to reconsider hegemonic ideas about Latinidad. The cultural production of Latinos/as of Central American descent has engaged in a critical denunciation of the violence that characterizes not only the history, but also the current situation, of the Central American isthmus. This essay examines the strategies used by US Central American poet William Archila and visual artist Alma Leiva to (re)construct the past and memorialize the victims of violence across Central America. I argue that Archila’s poetry collection The Art of Exile and Alma Leiva’s installation-photography series Celdas are examples of the “art of witness.” As such, their works play a key role in the reconstruction of Central American collective memory from the diaspora.

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美国中美洲文化生产中的“见证艺术”：对威廉·阿奇拉的《流放的艺术》和阿尔玛·莱瓦的《塞尔达斯》的分析

美国中美洲人正在破坏、重新构想和振兴美国拉丁裔/o 经典，在这样做的过程中，他们迫使我们重新考虑关于拉丁裔的霸权思想。拉丁裔/中美洲后裔的文化生产参与了对暴力的批判性谴责，这种暴力不仅是中美洲地峡的历史特征，也是当前形势的特征。本文考察了美国中美洲诗人威廉·阿奇拉和视觉艺术家阿尔玛·莱瓦 (Alma Leiva) 用来（重新）构建过去和纪念中美洲暴力受害者的策略。我认为 Archila 的诗集《流放的艺术》和 Alma Leiva 的装置摄影系列 Celdas 是“见证艺术”的例子。因此，