Silence on the Mountain: Stories of Terror, Betrayal, and Forgetting in GuatemalaDuke University Press, 2004 - 375 σελίδες new in paperback Silence on the Mountain is a virtuoso work of reporting and a masterfully plotted narrative tracing the history of Guatemala's thirty-six-year internal war, a conflict that claimed the lives of some 200,000 people, the vast majority of whom died (or were "disappeared") at the hands of the U.S.-backed military government. Written by Daniel Wilkinson, a young human rights worker, the story begins in 1993, when the author decides to investigate the arson of a coffee plantation's manor house by a band of guerrillas. The questions surrounding this incident soon broaden into a complex mystery whose solution requires Wilkinson to dig up the largely unwritten history of the country's recent civil war, following its roots back to a land reform movement that was derailed by a U.S.-sponsored military coup in 1954 and to the origins of a plantation system that put Guatemala's Mayan Indians to work picking coffee beans for the American and European markets. Decades of terror-inspired fear have led the Guatemalans to adopt a survival strategy of silence so complete it verges on collective amnesia. The author's great triumph is that he finds a way for people to tell their stories, and it is through these stories--dramatic, intimate, heartbreaking--that we are shown the anatomy of a thwarted revolution that has relevance not only to Guatemala but also to countless places around the world where terror has been used as a political tool. |
Περιεχόμενα
The Owner | 3 |
The Student | 7 |
The Battlefield | 11 |
Exhumation | 19 |
Ashes Fell | 27 |
Rumor | 29 |
Travelogue | 32 |
Natural History | 42 |
Burials | 180 |
And They Were the Eruption | 191 |
The Savages | 193 |
Sacuchum | 199 |
The Guerrillas | 217 |
The Politicians | 252 |
The Terrorists | 307 |
The Defeated | 337 |
Bildungsroman | 48 |
Revelation | 56 |
Decree | 65 |
A Future Was Buried | 81 |
A Dangerous Question | 83 |
The Law That Would Change the World | 157 |
Betrayal | 168 |
The Storytellers | 350 |
List of Names | 361 |
Note on Sources | 362 |
367 | |
Acknowledgments | 372 |
374 | |
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Silence on the Mountain: Stories of Terror, Betrayal, and Forgetting in ... Daniel Wilkinson Δεν υπάρχει διαθέσιμη προεπισκόπηση - 2002 |
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