Taking Their Word: Literature and the Signs of Central America

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abjection: transformation of in Mulata de tal, 38–39 “Abject Poetics of Asturias and Buñuel, The,” 34 A-B-sudario (A-B-shroud), 23 Academia Maya de la Lengua (Maya Language Academy), 178–79 Academy of Maya Languages, 78–79 Acción Católica (Catholic Action), 111–12, 118 Actun Tunichil Muknal (Cave of the Crystal Sepulcher), 125–26 Adams, Richard N., 114, 231n21, 248n20 Adelman, Jeremy, 221 Adorno, Rolena, 195 aesthetics: Central American literature’s distrust of, 261n5 African National Congress, 99 Against Literature, 231n22, 251n21 Aguayo, Rosa, 247n14 AIDPI Commissions, 177 Ak’abal, Humberto, 79, 180 Albizúrez, Miguel Angel, 108, 121 Alegría, Claribel, ix, 7, 9, 12, 15, 231n18, 232nn28–29, 232n37; testimonial genre and, 16, 233n43 Alegría, Isabel, 108 “Al este de la flora apacible,” 66 Alfaguara Literary Award, 3–4, 19 Allende, Isabel, 22 Allende, Salvador, 239n59 Alliance for Progress, 115, 117 Alvarado, Elvia, 18 Alvarado, Manuela, 174 Alvarez, Francisca, 122, 249n34 Alvarez Ruiz, Donaldo, 146, 151–52 Andean region: indigenous literature in, xiv anthropological research: subalternity in, 96–102, 133 Anti-Discrimination Law (Guatemala), 174 Aparicio, Frances, 204 Appadurai, Arjun, 191 Arbenz, Jacobo, 8, 231n20, 238n52, 239n59 Archives of Twentieth Century Latin American Literature, 235n11 Arenas, Luis (“Tiger of Ixcán”), 111–12 Arévalo, Juan José, 41, 233n50, 238n46, 239n56, 239n59 Argentina: literature from, xi Arguedas, José María, 71 Argueta, Luis, 215 Argueta, Manlio, 7–8, 10, 13, 18 Arias, Arturo, 110–13, 133, 247n11 279 Index Armijo, Roberto, xx–xxi, 7–9, 13, 49, 58–62 Arreola, Aura Marina, 247n15 Arroyo, Jossiana, 259n31 arson investigations of Spanish embassy fire in Guatemala, 147–49 Arzú, Alvaro (President), 113–14, 121, 150, 155, 1110 Arzú Castillo, Odette, 151–54 Asociación de Forjadores de Ideales Quichlenses (Association of the Forgers of Quiché Ideals), 118 Asociación Pro Cultura Maya-Quiché (Association for Maya-Quiché Culture), 118 Assault on Paradise, 197 Asturias, Miguel Angel, ix, xi; Central American cultural identity and, 194; on Christianity in Central America, 237n36; criticism of, 14; on destruction of Guatemala, 41–46; exile of, 28, 235n10; fantasy technique in novels of, 33–41; feminization of warriors and writing of, 259n22; generación comprometida (politically engaged generation) and writing of, 16; influences on, 46–48; knowledge of masochism, 27, 234n5; literary innovation of, 231n18; as neo-indigenismo, 54–55; Nobel Prize awarded to, 4, 53; political activities of, xx, 4, 8, 231n22; psychic structure in novels of, 27–28, 47–48, 235n8; radical Catholicism and, 22; sexual orientation of, 28, 235n11; writing in 1980s of, 15–19 Augustine (Saint), 139–40 Augusto Cesar Sandino Front, 119 authenticity: of ethnic identity, globalization and, 167–73; of Menchú’s testimonio, 85–87, 96–102, 135–42 avant-garde movement: in Central American literature, 13–15; transgression literature and, 47, 239n58 Avelar, Idelber, 9, 13–14, 52–53 Aztecs: in Central America, xviii Bakhtin, Mikhail, 46, 138, 141–42, 251n22 Balibar, Etienne, 128 Bälz, Erwin, 51 Barahona, Elías, 146–47, 151–52, 154–55 Barthes, Roland, 47 Bataille, Georges, 28, 32, 36, 38, 43, 46–47, 234n5, 239nn57–58 “Battle of Rigoberta, The,” 105–15, 122–23, 130 Baudrillard, Jean, 255n14 Bauer Arzú, Augusto, 154, 158 Beautiful Mind, A, 203 Belize: Maya culture in, 125–26 Belizean literature: invisibility of, 241n26 Belli, Gioconda, 16–17, 22, 58, 220, 232n47, 233n53 Beltrán, Gonzalo Aguirre, 54 Bencastro, Mario, 213–15 Benítez Rojo, Antonio, xvii Berger, Oscar, 132, 193 Bermejo, Pedro (Judge), 158 Berryman, Phillip, 140, 251n25 bestiality: in Mulata de tal, 26, 234n1 Between Two Armies, 107 Beverley, John, x–xi, xvi, 87, 142, 231n22, 249n3, 251n21 Bhabha, Homi, 25n12, 72, 94, 96, 195, 199–200 Biggs, Melissa, 52 bilingual education: Maya campaign for, 177–78 binarism: in Menchú’s testimonio, 90–96 Blandón, Erick, 23 Bly, Robert, 230n7 Bolívar, Simón, 20 Bonaparte, Louis, 20 boom writers in Central American 280 Index Literature, 12–15; “Mongolian spot” myth and, 53–55 Borges, Jorge Luis, xi Bourdieu, Pierre, 191 Brotherston, Gordon, 56, 205 Brünner, José Joaquín, 167, 182 Buchsbaum, Herbert, 125 Burgos-Debray, Elisabeth, 95–96, 106, 128, 130, 244n2, 245n20, 246n8 Bush, George W., 193 Butler, Judith, 32, 34–35 Cabarrús, Carlos, 114 Cabezas, Omar, 18 Cáceres Lehnhoff, Eduardo, 151–52, 161 Cádenas, Galel, 229n5 Cajal y López, Máximo, 146–47, 151–62 Calí, Francisco...