Voices from the Silence: Guatemalan Literature of Resistance

by Marc Zimmerman

The conquest, colonization, independence, the liberal reforms, the regimes, revolution, and dictatorships, the insurrections and ongoing peace dialogues all are combined in a narrative projecting the most important forces in Guatemalan history from the Mayan period to our own times. Using excerpts from poems, novels, stories, essays, and interviews by writers ranging from Cardoza y Arag n and Nobel Prize winner Miguel Angel Asturias to the indigenous...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0896801985
• ISBN13: 9780896801981
• Release Date: December 1998
• Publisher: Ohio University Press
• Length: 562 Pages
• Weight: 1.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 5.5" x 8.5"