The Zapatista Reader

The electrifying effect the Zapatista peasant rebellion has had on leading figures in the intellectual, political, and literary world since the Zapatistas woke them up on New Year's Day, 1994, has provided inspiration for activists all over the world. A remarkable synergy has also developed between leading writers, novelists, and journalists and Subcomandante Marcos, the enigmatic, pipe-smoking and balaclavered leader of the Zapatista Army of National Liberation, who seems like a character out of a "magical realism" novel. This reader includes a wide sampling of the best of the writing to emerge on the subject. The book is a journey through an insurgent and magical world of culture and politics, where celebrants and critics debate what Carlos Fuentes has described as the world's first post-communist rebellion.' Included are essays by Paco Taibo II, Octavio Paz, Carlos Fuentes, Elena Poniatowska, Ilan Stavans, Carlos Monsivais, Jorge Castenada, Jose Saramago, John Berger, Marc Cooper, Andrew Kopkind, Bill Weinberg, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Alma Guillermoprieto and Eduardo Galeano."

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Bold Type Books
Published: 01/04/2002
ISBN: 9781560253358
Pages: 400
Weight: 1.54lbs
Size: 8.40h x 6.80w x 1.13d

Review Citations: Kirkus Reviews 01/01/2002 pg. 30
Publishers Weekly 02/11/2002 pg. 176
Booklist 02/15/2002 pg. 989
Library Journal 03/15/2002 pg. 96
Multicultural Review 12/01/2002 pg. 92