Genocide
Vision of the Vanquished, or The Broken Spears by Miguel Leon-Portilla
RevSocialist اش... — Fri, 08/13/2010 - 13:26
This book (222pg) edited by the well known Indigenous Scholar Miguel Leon-Portillo is one of the rare books to tell the story of the rape and genocide of mexico from, not only the perspective of the victims, but actually in their words. The book contains several extracts from rare Aztec testimonies of the genocide of mexico, with short introductions by Leon-Portillo to explain the background and peculiarities of the given text.
Johan Padan and the "Discovery" of the Americas by Dario Fo
RevSocialist اش... — Fri, 04/30/2010 - 15:53
This play (109pg) by Dario Fo was written in the unconventional style which Fo himself first made popular, i.e. "narrative theatre" (teatro di narrazione). In such narrative plays, there is only one person, and there is no action or dress or background or anything like that, but just a narrator-actor telling a story, very similar to the popular storytelling which influenced Fo's style so much.
