Le choix de l'écriture : Utopie, poésie, insurrection au Chiapas et au Guatemala

Spaces of shared memories and geographical limits, the forest regions of Chiapas (Mexico) and Ixcán (Guatemala) were, at the end of the 20th century, to undergo the painful experience of guerra sucia, an underground war against native communities; a war fed by forgetting and crushing and settled in rhetoric set in a context of oppression. With Latitud de la flor y el granizo, the essay published in 1988 by Mario Payeras, founder in Guatemala of the Ejército Guerrillero de los Pobres, and the heterogeneous corpus of the texts (published between 1994 and 2001) constituted by the Ejército Zapatista de Liberación Nacional and its then famous Subcomandante Marcos, we can explore two convergent s…