RT Article
T1 The silencing of Maya women from Mamá Maquí to Rigoberta Menchú
JF Social justice
VO 27
IS 1
SP 128
OP 151
A1 Sanford, Victoria
LA English
YR 2000
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/174715962X
AB Part of a special section on race, class, and state crime. In order to get a grasp of Guatemala's present transition from authoritarian rule and its efforts to construct a democratic society based on the rule of law, the writer argues that we must try to understand how the majority rural Maya experienced state structures of terror and how they internalized these structures as part of their individual and collective identities. She uses the concept of a “living memory of terror” to understand and contest the violence of the past and the fear that flourishes long after physical violence dissipates. She examines testimony, official discourse, and truth in popular memory in relation to the still contested reconstruction of Guatemalan history. She describes the silencing of Rigoberta Menchú and Mamá Maquín and analyzes testimonies of rural survivors of La Violencia and their efforts to rebuild their lives by way of the public assertion of memory and the reshaping of history.
K1 Menchú, Rigoberta, 1959-
K1 Political atrocities
K1 Authoritarianism
K1 Massacres
K1 Political persecution
K1 Political Participation
K1 Indigenous peoples -- Guatemala
K1 Maya women
K1 Human Rights