Industry & Revolution: Social and Economic Change in Orizaba Valley, Mexico by Aurora Gómez-Galvarriato (original) (raw)

The Americas, 2014

Abstract

Children of the Days consists of a mosaic of short vignettes, laid out one per day on the (Roman) calendar of a year. It takes its title from a Maya poem, presumably the Popol Vuh, although the citation is not clear. The surprising, intriguing brief stories are somehow connected to their day of the year but not to each other, resulting in a panorama of the paradoxes of human history—terrible oppression and cruelty mixed with heroic resistance, defiance, and humor—a triumph of mosaic art. Children contains tidbits to surprise anyone. From the entry on June 5, World Environment Day, I learned that Ecuador's new constitution was the world's first to recognize nature as a subject with rights. I also learned that Galeano thinks that if nature were a bank, the U.S. would by now have rescued it (p. 173). From the entry of April 18, the anniversary of Albert Einstein's death, I learned that the FBI kept a file on him for 22 years as a likely Communist. (He was a socialist and defender of civil rights leaders.)

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