Reckoning: The Ends of War in Guatemala by Diane M. Nelson
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- Pub. Date: February 2009
- 403pp
- Sales Rank: 231,900
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Product Details
- Pub. Date: February 2009
- Publisher: Duke University Press
- Format: Paperback, 403pp
- Sales Rank: 231,900
- ISBN-13: 9780822343240
- ISBN: 082234324X
Synopsis
Following The 1996 treaty ending decades of civil war, how are Guatemalans reckoning with genocide, especially since almost everyone contributed in some way to the violence? Meaning "to count, figure up" and "to settle rewards and punishments," the term reckoning promises accounting and accountability. Yet as Diane M. Nelson shows, the means by which the war waged, especially as they related to race and gender, unsettled the very premises of knowing and being. Symptomatic are the stories of duplicity pervasive in postwar Guatemala, as the left, the Mayan people, and the state were each said to have "two faces." Drawing on more than twenty years of research in Guatemala, Nelson explores how postwar struggles to reckon with traumatic experience illuminate the assumptions of identity more generally.
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