Hard Red Spring

The choice to focus on the points of view of North American women throughout this fraught history forces questions of the gendered limits to their agency, and of their consequent complicity and responsibility for the damage U.S. capital and geopolitical calculations inflicted on the country. Nonethe...

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Published in:NACLA report on the Americas (1993) 2016-12, Vol.48 (4), p.412
Main Author: Fuentes, Myrna Ivonne Wallace
Format: Magazinearticle
Language:English
Subjects:
Anti-communism
Diplomatic & consular services
Geopolitics
Husbands
Native peoples
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Summary:The choice to focus on the points of view of North American women throughout this fraught history forces questions of the gendered limits to their agency, and of their consequent complicity and responsibility for the damage U.S. capital and geopolitical calculations inflicted on the country. Nonetheless, I would hesitate to recommend it as an introduction to Guatemala. Since each of the main protagonists views the country, and especially its indigenous people, with barely disguised distaste, the novel essentially tells us more about racialized perceptions of Guatemala and the Maya than it does about Guatemala itself.
ISSN:1071-4839
2471-2620
DOI:10.1080/10714839.2016.1258290