"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 "enlightened" by his experiences. To his eyes, the village has remained frozen in time. After experiencing alternative cultures in the wider world, he finds that he is both comforted and disgusted by the village's lingering "indigenous" characteristics."---Back cover.
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ISBN:9780816521340 (pbk. : acid-free paper)
ISBN:0816521344 (pbk. : acid-free paper)
Physical Description:print xxvii, 119 p. ; 23 cm.
Publisher:Tucson : University of Arizona Press, c2012.
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Translator's introduction: Translation and 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.
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