The Guatemala reader
Subtitle: history, culture, politics
By: Greg Grandin, Deborah T. Levenson, and Elizabeth Oglesby, eds
Contributors: Levenson-Estrada, Deborah
Series: The Latin America readers; Latin America readers
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Durham, NC
Language: eng
Number of pages: 663
ISBN-13: 9780822350941; 9780822351078
Subjects: Politics and government; Civilization; History
Description: This Reader brings together more than 200 texts and images in a broad introduction to Guatemala's history, culture, and politics. In choosing the selections, the editors sought to avoid representing the country only in terms of its long experience of conflict, racism, and violence. And so, while offering many perspectives on that violence, this anthology portrays Guatemala as a real place where people experience joys and sorrows that can not be reduced to the contretemps of resistance and repression. It includes not only the opinions of politicians, activists, and scholars, but also poems, songs, plays, jokes, novels, short stories, recipes, art, and photographs that capture the diversity of everyday life in Guatemala. The editors introduce all of the selections, from the first piece, an excerpt from the Popol vuh, a mid-sixteenth-century text believed to be the single most important source documenting pre-Hispanic Maya culture, through the final selections, which explore contemporary Guatemala in relation to neoliberalism, multiculturalism, and the dynamics of migration to the United States and of immigrant life. Many pieces were originally published in Spanish, and most of those appear in English for the first time. -- BOOK COVER.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [625]-639) and index.
Table of contents: title: The Maya : before the Europeans; title: Invasion and colonialism; title: A caffeinated modernism; title: Ten years of spring and beyond; title: Roads to revolution; title: Intent to destroy; title: An unsettled peace; title: Maya movements; title: The sixth century.