By Diane M. Nelson
Nelson brings jointly tales of human rights activism, Mayan identification struggles, coerced participation in massacres, and renowned entertainment—including conventional dances, horror movies, and carnivals—with analyses of mass-grave exhumations, professional apologies, and reparations. She discusses the stereotype of the Two-Faced Indian as colonial discourse revivified via anti-guerrilla counterinsurgency and by way of the claims of duplicity leveled opposed to the Nobel laureate Rigoberta Menchú, and she or he explores how duplicity may perhaps in flip functionality as a survival procedure for a few. Nelson examines suspicions that nation energy is usually two-faced, from the left’s fears of a clandestine para-state at the back of the democratic façade, to the right’s conviction that NGOs threaten Guatemalan sovereignty. Her comparability of antimalaria and antisubversive campaigns indicates biopolitical ways in which the kingdom is two-faced, at the same time giving and taking existence. Reckoning is a view from the floor up of the way Guatemalans are discovering artistic methods ahead, turning ledger books, technoscience, or even gory horror video clips into instruments for making experience of violence, loss, and the future.
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