{"product_id":"9780816533077","title":"Thunderweavers\/ Tejedoras de rayos","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe highlands of Chiapas are smoldering with death.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e In the winter of 1997, paramilitary agents ambushed and killed many Mayan villagers in Acteal, Chiapas. Gifted writer Juan Felipe Herrera has composed a stirring poem sequence—published in a bilingual format—written in response and homage to those who died, as well as to all those who call for peace and justice in the Mexican highlands and throughout the Americas.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eThunderweavers\u003c\/i\u003e is a story of violent displacements in the lives of the most impoverished residents of southern Mexico, the Tzotzil Tzeltal campesinos. It deals with the destruction of a people and all evidence of their lives:\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eWhy am I Tzotzil?\u003cbr\u003e Why was I born in this land of so many storms?\u003cbr\u003e I plant corn and yet I reap gunpowder\u003cbr\u003e I plant coffee and yet I reap mad spirits\u003cbr\u003e I plant my house and yet I reap the viscera\u003cbr\u003e of this fallen earth.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e The sections are written in the voices of four women from a family in Chiapas: Xunka, a lost twelve-year-old girl; Pascuala, the mother; grandmother Maruch; and Makal, an older daughter who is pregnant. Each voice weaves into the others and speaks for still other members of the larger Mayan and Native American family.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Herrera, a major Chicano poet known for his expansive, surreal writing, here takes on a spare and lyrical style in the tradition of Rosario Castellanos, recalling as well the canto legacy of Pablo Neruda and the testimonial call of Ernesto Cardenal. \u003ci\u003eThunderweavers\u003c\/i\u003e is a poetic account of transcendence and continuity in the midst of chaos, suffering, and war—a Mayan cycle of personal, physical, and spiritual struggles that Indian women have been continuously engaged in for the past five hundred years.","brand":"University of Arizona Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47118899839216,"sku":"9780816533077","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780816533077_p0.jpg?v=1763749510","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780816533077","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}