Time Commences in Xibalbï¿½

Name: Time Commences in Xibalbï¿½
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ISBN: 9780816521340

ISBN-10: 0816521344

ISBN-13: 9780816521340

Edition: 2nd 2012

Authors: Luis de Liï¿½n, Nathan C. Henne, Arturo Arias

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Time Commences in Xibalbá tells the story of a violent village crisis in Guatemala sparked by the return of a prodigal son, Pascual. He had been raised tough by a poor, single mother in the village before going off with the military. When Pascual comes back, he is changed—both scarred and “enlightened” by his experiences. To his eyes, the village has remained frozen in time. After experiencing alternative cultures in the wider world, he finds that he is both comforted and disgusted by the village’s lingering “indigenous” characteristics.De Lión manages to tell this volatile story by blending several modes, moods, and voices so that the novel never falls into the expected narrative line. It…

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List price: $28.95
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Publication date: 11/15/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 152
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.38" tall
Weight: 0.484
Language: English



Translator's Introduction: Translation and a Poetics of the Uncertain



First There Was the Wind


The Other Half of the Night They Didn't Sleep


And, in Fact, They Were Alive


And the Day Came


Epi…taph


Prologue


Afterword: Racialized Subalternity as Emancipatory Decolonial Project: Time Commences in Xibalbï¿½ by Luis de Liï¿½n