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Chargement... City of Kings (1960)par Rosario Castellanos
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Written in 1960, these stories unfold in the Mexican state of Chiapas—the later site of the Zapatista uprising, and the author addresses controversial questions of power, class, race, and language, giving insight into the historical background of a political struggle still going on today. The complex relationship of conquerors and conquered is explored with masterful writing that earned Rosario Castellanos a permanent place in the literary history of Mexican authors. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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Most of the stories focus on a Tzotzile character or community, and Castellanos shows how they are treated by the Ladinos--as peons they are employed but not paid (essentially enslaved); how they "know their place", staying off sidewalks and out of stores; how they expect nothing but poor treatment. One story focuses on an orphaned young Ladino woman who comes from Mexico City for a job at a clinic and is horrified by what she sees; the longest and last story focuses on the jostling for position between the Catholic church and American Protestant missionaries--both supposedly serving the natives, but really they only serve themselves and their employees.
The introduction to this book describes Castellanos as a Ladina who had a "[painful] self conscious awareness of her own acts of cultural interpretation". This book is certainly interesting and this is not a topic--the 20th century history of the Mayan descendants--that I know much about and is definitely something I would like to read more on, especially from within that community. I do know that many people from Chiapas and Central America still do not speak only their mnative Mayan-related language and not Spanish, as it is a continuing issue in my local school district. (