Narrating Cultural Resurgence
Genre and Self-Representation for Pan-Mayan Writers
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23733403 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Kay B Warren (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Pages | 21-45 |
| Publication date | 2021-01-07 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | CHAPTER |
| Venue | Auto/ethnography (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Routledge (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.4324/9781003136118-3 |
| OpenAlex | W3120574441 |
| ISBN | 9781003136118 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
The public intellectuals involved in Guatemala&s;s Pan-Mayan movement critique the ethics and politics of foreign anthropology and openly reject interview-based research and the ethnographic genre for their own writings. The Guatemala of Montejo&s;s testimony is the tourist paradise of colorful weavings and isolated peasant villages awaiting Western development, but rather a world of "contact zones," social spaces where disparate cultures meet, clash, grapple with each other, often in highly asymmetrical relations of domination and subordination. Victor Montejo&s;s writings take readers on a personal journey of violence, displacement, and cultural renewal. While the rhetoric of anticommunism was used by Latin American governments to gamer US financial support for counter-insurgency warfare in the 1970s and 1980s, human rights activists worked to convince Americans that the Guatemalan regime had an agenda which targeted armed guerrillas as well as unarmed civilian populations who were deprived of basic internationally recognized human rights.
Art · Humanities · Linguistics · Literature · Political science · Politics · Representation (politics) · Self representation · Cultural and Social Studies in Latin America · History · Indigenous Cultures and Socio-Education · Multilingual Education and Policy · Philosophy
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,06 |
| Citation span | 2010 - 2010 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |