- Hardcover: 456 pages
- Publisher: Seven Stories Press (Dec 5 2000)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1583220364
- ISBN-13: 978-1583220368
- Product Dimensions: 22.9 x 15.5 x 4.1 cm
- Shipping Weight: 726 g
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #1,310,564 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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From Publishers Weekly
In 1994, as a guerrilla group of indigenous people calling themselves "Zapatistas" rose up in armed rebellion in the poor Mexican state of Chiapas, the writings of their enigmatic spokesman, Marcos, began being published in various Mexican journals and newspapers. They have since been disseminated around the world via the Internet and by Cinco Puntos press in the U.S. This collection of Marcos's work clearly shows--no matter one's stance on his politics--why he has become an international phenomenon: he is a writer of rare ability. As a political analyst and propagandist, Marcos offers trenchant analyses of the plight of the native people of Mexico, their neglect by a corrupt national government and the exacerbation of their poverty and marginality, according to him, as "neoliberalism"--i.e., international finance--permeated that nation. But he moves easily to romantic realist musings on his life in the remote mountains of Chiapas and the path that led him to the role of rebel. Finally he becomes a fabulist, writing his own brief tales--at times achingly poetic, at other times laugh-out-loud funny--and retelling the ancient myths and legends from Mexico's Mayan past. Though the pieces here are, in the end, difficult to categorize, what connects them is Marcos's commitment to making the indigenous people visible, revealing the poverty of their lives and the richness of their traditions. He writes, "Being silent, our voice was passing away." Marcos has broken that silence in language as strong as dignity and as subtle as love. To read this collection is to discover that rare animal: an original voice.
Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.
From Library Journal
On January 1, 1994, an indigenous guerrilla group, the Zapatistas, named after the early 20th-century revolutionary Mexican leader Emilio Zapata, seized several key towns in the southern Mexican state of Chiapas. The most significant uprising in Latin America in the last 20 years, this act focused Mexican military and political attention on the region and caught the imagination of the world's leftist community. A major reason for the international interest centers partly on the elusive figure of its spokesman leader, known only as Subcomandante Insurgente Marcos. This mysterious character, who has remained unidentified and appears in public with his face partially hidden, declared that this movement would focus not on the battlefield but on winning worldwide public opinion and support over the airwaves and Internet. As a result, Marcos's poetic and articulate writings, including an awarding-winning children's book, Story of the Colors, are essential elements in understanding this movement. A good compilation of translations of his more important writings, this volume will be of interest to university research libraries and public libraries with an interest in Mexico and revolution.DMark L. Grover, Brigham Young Univ. Lib., Provo, UT
Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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5.0 out of 5 stars
A movement of Now.,
By Bob Berkowitz (Miami, Fl) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Our Word is Our Weapon (Paperback)
Too often those of us who seek social justice for people who have been traditionally oppressed tend to just reminisce on the past.However, this book proves that there is a great social movement that ordinary people CAN , RIGHT NOW make a diffrence about The history of Mexico, like the history of Latin America, is a history of pain, struggle, and exploitation. Marcos shows us a movement that seeks to right some of the wrong, and leads a movement of the oldest of the old, the oppressed of the oppressed: Indigenous campesinos (farmers) of Southern Mexico. Where pictures of Jesus Christ stand right there alongside of.....Che Guevara. A people that have been traditionally been treated like dirt, for lack of a better word, now taking an inspirational and highly moving stand and demand an end to exploitation and a better way of life. Through their charismatic and briliant leader, Marcos, he tells us the story of the people known as Zapatistas and their struggle for dignity. The dignity of a people no longer willing to tolerate centuries of injustice. What human being cannot be moved by such extroadinary courage?
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A must to read!,
By Margaret Dybala "too many books, too little time" (Pearland, Texas United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)
This review is from: Our Word is Our Weapon (Hardcover)
How can anyone read el subcommandante and not be moved? How can anyone just look at the plight of these people in Mexico and not feel rage at the injustice?
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this is what a best seller should contain!,
By Deepa Fernandes (Harlem, NY United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Our Word is Our Weapon (Hardcover)
I have sporadically read and been inspired by the writings of El Sup over the last few years - his poetic brilliance, his lyrical poignancy to strike a blow while planting seeds - and to see the collected works of this remarkable thinker and revolutionary is simply incredible. I encourage anyone who is involved in a struggle, anyone who seeks light in an increasingly dark world, and anyone who believes that a better world is still possible, to get this book. Not a cover to cover read, but an activist manual, a delicious serving brain food and heart food. Again, simply wonderful.
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