Zapatista Spring

by Ryan, Ramor

• ISBN13: 9781849350723
• ISBN10: 1849350728
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-08-23
• Publisher: A K Pr Distribution

Summary

Eight volunteers converge to help campesinosbuild a water system in Chiapasa strategy to bolster the Zapatista insurgency by helping locals to assert their autonomy. Outsiders question the movement they've come so far to supportand each otherwhen forced into a world so unlike the poetic communiques of Subcomandante Marcosa world of endemic rural poverty, parochialism, and shifting loyalties to the movement. The quiet dignity of the local companerosand echoes of B. Traven, Joseph Conrad, and Albert Camus round out this epic yarn. Ramor Ryanis an Irish writer and translator based in Chiapas, Mexico, and is the author of Clandestines.

Author Biography

Ramor Ryan is an Irish writer and translator based in Chiapas, Mexico, and the author of Clandestines.

Table of Contents

Prelude
Bridge Across the Jungle	p. 1
Journey into the Desert of Solitude
The Theater of Action	p. 6
Enter the Waterboys and Girls of Solidarity	p. 11
Journey into the Desert of Solitude	p. 13
The Cartography of Thirst	p. 25
Subversive Activities	p. 33
Ferry Across the Jatate	p. 41
Trench Warfare
The Work Begins	p. 52
"Hideous Indian Women"	p. 61
Digging with Conrad	p. 67
Age of Christ: Reflections of a Water Worker	p. 81
Trench Warfare	p. 90
An Unexpected Visitor	p. 94
The End of the Tether	p. 100
Pirate Evacuation	p. 108
Heart of the Community
Road Hazards and Group Psychosis	p. 120
Cement Tanks and Tigers	p. 135
40 Degrees in a Simmering Cauldron	p. 156
Heart of the Community	p. 165
Springtime in Zapatistalandia	p. 177
Aftermath-Solidarity and its Malcontents
Deus ex Machina, Unwelcome	p. 194
Too Long a Sacrifice	p. 202
End Words: The Journey Itself is Enough?	p. 208
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