A Beauty that Hurts: Life and Death in Guatemala

by W. George Lovell

Overview

When A Beauty That Hurts first appeared in 1995, Guatemala was one of the world’s most flagrant violators of human rights. An accord brokered by the United Nations brought a measure of peace after three decades of armed conflict, but the country’s troubles are far from over. George Lovell revisits Guatemala to grapple once again with the terror inflicted on its Maya peoples by a military-dominated state.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781771134552
Publisher:	Between the Lines
Publication date:	10/25/2022
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	276
File size:	8 MB

About the Author

W. GEORGE LOVELL is Professor of Geography at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario, Canada. He also teaches at the Universidad Pablo de Olavide in Seville, Spain, as Visiting Professor in Latin American History. To date, his ten book titles have appeared in seventeen different editions in Spanish as well as in English. Among his honors is the Carl O. Sauer Distinguished Scholarship Award from the Conference of Latin Americanist Geographers.

Table of Contents

Preface
Part One: Struggle and Survival
Q'anjob'al Canadian
Nobel K'iche'
Witness to Slaughter
Doña Magdalena
Through the Eyes of Jean-Marie
In the Land of the Devil

Part Two: Blood and Ink
The Delivery Man
Into the Fire
Peace of the Dead
Futility at the Polls
Civilian Rule
A Militarized Society
The Daily News
The Fiction of Democracy
Searching for Peace
Scarred by War
How Was Guatemala?

A Guatemalan Gallery
Part Three: Spaniards, Ladinos, and the Enduring Maya
The Colonial Experience
The Century after Independence
Arbenz and the Fruit Company
The T-Shirt Parade
Indians in the Backcountry

Epilogue
Sources and Commentary