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La Patria del Criollo

An Interpretation of Colonial Guatemala

Autor: Severo Martinez Pelaez

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Editura: Duke University Press

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This translation of Severo Martinez Pelaez's "La Patria del Criollo", a book first published in Guat...

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Autor

Severo Martinez Pelaez

Limbă

engleză

Legare

Carte - Copertă tare

Publicat

2009

Pagini

384

EAN

9780822343974

ISBN

0822343975

Enbook ID

04938891

Editura

Duke University Press

Greutate

666

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This translation of Severo Martinez Pelaez's "La Patria del Criollo", a book first published in Guatemala in 1970, makes a classic, controversial work of Latin American history available to English-language readers. Martinez was one of Guatemala's foremost historians and a political activist committed to revolutionary social change. "La Patria del Criollo" is his scathing assessment of Guatemala's colonial legacy. Martinez argues that Guatemala remains a colonial society because the conditions that arose centuries ago when imperial Spain held sway have endured. He maintains that neither independence in 1821 nor liberal reform following 1871 altered economic circumstances that assure prosperity for a few and deprivation for the majority. The few in question are an elite group of criollos, people of Spanish descent born in Guatemala; the majority are predominantly Maya Indians, whose impoverishment is shared by many mixed-race Guatemalans. Martinez asserts that 'the coffee dictatorships were the full and radical realization of criollo notions of the patria.' This patria, or homeland, was one that criollos had wrested from Spaniards in the name of independence and taken control of based on claims of liberal reform. He contends that since labor is needed to make land productive, the exploitation of labor, particularly Indian labor, was a necessary complement to criollo appropriation. His depiction of colonial reality is bleak, his portrayal of Spanish and criollo behavior toward Indians unrelenting in its emphasis on cruelty and oppression. Martinez felt that the grim past he documented surfaces each day in an equally grim present, and that confronting the past is a necessary step in any effort to improve Guatemala's woes. An extensive introduction situates "La Patria del Criollo" in historical context and relates it to contemporary issues and debates.

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