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2 - Becoming ants after the harvest: Hombres de maíz

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 February 2010

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Spiritual socialism is on the move. In this historic moment,

all of us are turning toward every man, turning around

egoistic liberalism toward the great social entity in which

every man is immersed.

Juan José Arévalo, President of Guatemala (1945–1951)

Para que el grupo “indio” recupere su identidad, se despierte, se vuelva autor de su historia, se debe reanudar el hilo del tiempo en el momento en el cual fue cortado. Solamente a través de este proceso puede ponerse en marcha la historia guatemalteca como totalidad. [El problema] … no se va a resolver por una ilusoria “integración” o “ladinización” (todas, ideologías que justifican una supuesta superioridad), sino por una dialéctica real y objetiva que permitirá, antes que todo, al autóctono recuperar su tierra y su historia, de las cuales ha sido violentamente expropiado desde la colonia española.

C. Guzman Bockler and J. L. Herbert, Guatemala: una interpretatión histórico-social

Volvieron, pues, a Pisigüilito. Horconear de nuevo para construir un rancho más grande, porques sus hijos casados tenían muchos hijos y todos se fueron a vivir con ellos.

Epilogue, Hombres de maíz

Sinbad sails home

Europe was good to Miguel Angel Asturias. The years in Paris were remarkably productive, and the contact with artists, journalists, and anthropologists a priceless apprenticeship. Well settled in the French capital but deeply attached to his homeland, he taught himself to re-create it in fiction in order to stave off the pangs of nostalgia.

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Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 1993

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