The Guatemala Reader ：History, Culture, Politics ( 1 )

Publication subTitle ：History, Culture, Politics

Publication series ：1

Author： Greg Grandin  

Publisher： Duke University Press‎

Publication year： 2011

E-ISBN: 9780822394679

P-ISBN(Paperback): 9780822351078

P-ISBN(Hardback):  9780822350941

Subject： K741 危地马拉

Keyword： Guatemala -- History., Guatemala -- Civilization., Guatemala -- Politics and government.

Language： ENG

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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 cannot 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.

Chapter

Contents

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Introduction

I. The Maya: Before the Europeans

II. Invasion and Colonialism

III. A Caffeinated Modernism

IV. Ten Years of Spring and Beyond

V. Roads to Revolution

VI. Intent to Destroy

VII. An Unsettled Peace

VIII. Maya Movements

IX. The Sixth Century

Suggestions for Further Reading

Acknowledgment of Copyrights and Sources

Index

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