Without history
Subtitle: subaltern studies, the Zapatista insurgency, and the specter of history
By: José Rabasa.
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Pittsburgh
Language: eng
Number of pages: 368
ISBN-13: 9780822960652
Subjects: Ejército Zapatista de Liberación Nacional (Mexico); Indians of Mexico -- Historiography; Historiography -- Political aspects -- Mexico; Indians of Mexico -- Study and teaching; Acteal Massacre, Acteal, Mexico, 1997 -- Personal narratives; Acteal Massacre, Acteal, Mexico, 1997 -- Historiography; Chiapas (Mexico) -- History -- Peasant Uprising, 1994- -- Historiography; Mexico -- Ethnic relations -- Historiography; Mexico -- Politics and government -- 1988-2000 -- Historiography
Genres: Personal narratives
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Pre-Columbian pasts and Indian presents in Mexican history; title: Of Zapatismo : reflections on the folkloric and the impossible in a subaltern insurrection; title: Historical and epistemological limits in subaltern studies; title: Beyond representation? : the impossibility of the local (notes on subaltern studies in light of a rebellion in Tepoztlan, Morelos); title: Negri by Zapata : constituent power and the limits of autonomy; title: The comparative frame in subaltern studies; title: On the history of the history of peoples without history; title: Revolutionary spiritualities in Chiapas today : immanent history and the comparative frame in subaltern studies; title: Without history? : apostasy as a historical category; title: In the Mesoamerican archive : speech, script, and time in Tezozomoc and Chimalpahin; title: On documentary and testimony : the revisionists' history, the politics of truth, and the remembrance of the massacre at Acteal, Chiapas; title: Exception to the political.