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DESCRIPTION:Narrating Peace: The Duty of Zapatista Fiction in Nonviolent Democratic Imaginaries\nIn contrast to much of the scholarship on the Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN)\, this presentation places literary production at the center of their political practice. By examining the convergence of fictional narrative and military documentation\, I draw on the Maya-Tsotsil concept of k’op\, which emphasizes an indivisible relationship between language and popular resistance\, to challenge the assumption that Zapatista literature is of secondary importance\, functioning merely to support political statements or justify armed struggle. Instead\, I argue that Zapatista literature enables the rebel autonomies to reassess\, articulate\, and enact their visions of democracy while redirecting struggle toward dialogue\, collective education\, and peacebuilding. Through a comparative literary reading of Subcomandante Marcos’s short story “Cuando los arroyos bajan” alongside unpublished\, hand-drawn military maps produced by clandestine Indigenous guerrilla units\, this presentation traces the exchange between fictional and military archives as they engage civil society and lawmakers in efforts to imagine nonviolent forms of resistance and to assert justice and the right to land sovereignty. My wager is that fictional narrative operates not only as representation but also as form and organizational method\, promoting modes of political imagination that foreground antiviolence amid growing social instability in southwestern Mexico.\n\nBio:\nDr. André de Oliveira Nascimento is a Fisher Center postdoctoral fellow at Hobart and William Smith Colleges and he earned his Ph.D. at Cornell University. He is a scholar of Indigenous Studies\, Marxism\, environmental aesthetics\, Indigenous guerrilla movements\, and political theory. His work brings together Indigenous archives\, Maya Tsotsil language\, literary analysis\, and intra-diplomatic relations to examine struggles for land sovereignty in Latin America.\n\nhttps://today.coloradocollege.edu/events/9563
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LOCATION:Max Kade Theatre
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SUMMARY:Job Talk: Candidate 1 Spanish & Portuguese
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