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.
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