Marcos,
We were at the HalfPrice Book Store in Dallas yesterday, and I picked up a book called Memory of Fire by Eduardo Galeano... which allegedly "records the entire history of the American continent". It appears to be a trilogy and begins with native myths, small paragraphs that seem to establish a foundation for the next 900 pages.
He admits to bias, to "taking sides", but I loved what he wrote in the Preface:
HIstory classes were like visits to the waxworks or the Region of the Dead. The past was hollow, lifeless, dumb. They taught us about the past so that we should resign ourselves with drained consciences to the present: not to make history, which was already made, but to accept it. Poor history had stopped breathing: betrayed in academic texts, lied about in classrooms, drowned in dates,.....
Perhaps Memory of Fire can help give her back breath, liberty, and the word. |
