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La
Patria del Criollo
An Interpretation of Colonial Guatemala
Translated by Susan M. Neve
and W. George Lovell
Edited and with introduction by W.
George Lovell and Christopher H. Lutz
“This outstanding translation
reminds me why La Patria del Criollo is such a vital book. What stays
with me more strongly from this work than from any other source is the massive,
relentless, and grinding labor-extracting machine in which Guatemala’s
native peoples were caught during the colonial era. To understand the recent
civil war and genocide in Guatemala, and also more global struggles, an
understanding of the history that Severo Martínez Peláez portrays is
necessary.”
—Diane M. Nelson, author
of Reckoning: The Ends of War in Guatemala
“This is a top-rate translation,
and La Patria del Criollo is a very important book, not just for Guatemalan and
Central American historiography but for a broader audience of Latin
Americanists. First published in 1970, it was well ahead of its time in its subtle
analysis of both social relations and the worldview of colonial elites, the
criollos of the book’s title. The work is a rich example of how
structuralists such as Severo Martínez Peláez were trying to deal with culture
and the contingencies of history.”
—Greg Grandin, author of The
Blood of Guatemala: A History of Race and Nation
Severo
Martínez Peláez
(1925–1998) is recognized as one of Central America’s most
distinguished men of letters. The Association of Guatemalan Journalists awarded
him the Quetzal de Oro in recognition of the public impact of La Patria del
Criollo.
Susan
M. Neve,
a translator specializing in Spanish language and literature, teaches at City
University and the University of Westminster in London.
W.
George Lovell
is Professor of Geography at Queen’s University in Canada, and Visiting
Lecturer in Latin American History at the Universidad Pablo de Olavide in
Spain.
Christopher
H. Lutz
is cofounder of the Centro de Investigaciones Regionales de Mesoamérica in
Antigua, Guatemala, and of the Maya Educational Foundation in South Woodstock,
Vermont. He is Managing Director of Plumsock Mesoamerican Studies, also based
in South Woodstock.
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