On Asturias’s Men of Maize
On Asturias’s Men of Maize
- August 16, 2024
- Héctor Tobar, Chicano/Latino studies and English, The Paris Review, Aug. 16, 2024 (Book review)
Héctor Tobar, UCI professor of English and Chicano/Latino studies writes, “Men of Maize is Miguel Ángel Asturias’s Mayan masterpiece, his Indigenous Ulysses, a deep dive into the forces that made and kept the Maya a subservient caste, and the perpetual resistance that kept Guatemala’s many Mayan cultures alive and resilient. … When I finally read Men of Maize, I saw echoes of my family story in every chapter.”
For the full story, please visit https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2024/08/16/on-asturiass-men-of-maize/.
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