Zapatista Stories for Dreaming Another World by Subcomandante Marcos

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Zapatista Stories for Dreaming Another World by Subcomandante Marcos

Edited and translated by Colectivo Relámpago/Lightning Collective with a Foreword by JoAnn Wypijewski. Published by PM Press, and part of the Kairos imprint of the Anthropology and Social Change Department at CIIS. ISBN: 9781629639703.

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In this gorgeous collection of allegorical stories, Subcomandante Marcos, idiosyncratic spokesperson of the Zapatistas, has provided “an accidental archive” of a revolutionary group’s struggle against neoliberalism. For thirty years, the Zapatistas have influenced and inspired movements worldwide, showing that another world is possible. They have infused left politics with a distinct imaginary—and an imaginative, literary, or poetic dimension—organizing horizontally, outside and against the state, and with a profound respect for difference as a source of political insight, not division. With commentaries that illuminate their historical, political, and literary contexts and an introduction by the translators, this timeless, elegiac volume is perfect for lovers of literature and lovers of revolution.

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“From the beating heart of Mesoamerica the old gods speak to Old Antonio, a glasses-wearing, pipe-smoking beetle who studies neoliberalism, and both tell their tales to Subcomandante Marcos who passes them on to us: the stories of the Zapatistas’ revolutionary struggles from below and to the left. The Colectivo Relámpago (Lightning Collective), based in Amherst, Massachusetts, translates and comments with bolts of illumination zigzagging across cultures and nations, bringing bursts of laughter and sudden charges of hot-wired political energy. It seems like child’s play, yet it’s almost divine!”
—Peter Linebaugh, author of Red Round Globe Hot Burning

“This is a beautiful, inspired project. In a joyful Zapatista gesture readers will welcome, this volume invites us to play, to walk on different, and even contrary paths through smooth and crystalline translations that bring these ‘other stories’ to life. The translators’ commentaries preserve a delicate balance of expertise and autonomy as they illuminate the historical, political, and cultural forces that provoked the stories’ creation. Among these forces are Zapatista women, whom the translators rightly dignify in their meticulous and provocative introduction. This volume is a gift to so many of us as we (attempt to) bring the Zapatista imagination to our students and organizing communities.”
—Michelle Joffroy, associate professor of Spanish and Latin American & Latino Studies, Smith College and co-director of Domestic Workers Make History

Zapatista Stories for Dreaming Another World
Author: Subcomandante Marcos • Edited and translated by Colectivo Relámpago/Lightning Collective • Foreword by JoAnn Wypijewski
Series: PM Press/Kairos
ISBN: 9781629639703
Published: 10/25/22
Format: Paperback
Size: 5x8
Pages: 160
Subjects: History & Literary Collections, Indigenous, Latin America, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology