*Time Commences in Xibalbá*tells the story of a violent village crisis in Guatemala sparked by the return of a prodigal son, Pascual. He had been raised tough by a poor, single mother in the village before going off with the military. When Pascual comes back, he is changed—both scarred and “enlighte
Time Commences in Xibalbá
✍ Scribed by De Lion, Luis;Henne, Nathan C
- Publisher
- University of Arizona Press
- Year
- 2012
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 170 KB
- Series
- Sun tracks
- Category
- Fiction
- City
- Guatemala,Guatemala., Tucson
- ISBN
- 0816599467
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✦ Synopsis
Contents -- Translator�s Introduction: Translation and a Poetics of the Uncertain -- Nathan C. Henne -- First There Was the Wind . . . -- The Other Half of the Night They Didn�t Sleep . . . -- And, in Fact, They Were Alive . . . -- And the Day Came . . . -- Epi ... taph -- Prologue -- Afterword: Racialized Subalternity as Emancipatory Decolonial Project: Time Commences in Xibalbá by Luis de Lión -- Arturo Arias
✦ Subjects
Guatemala
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