RiverRead Books

Cultural Writing. Latino/Latina studies. The Durito stories are some of the most literary and complex Zapatista communiques. Their narratives combine political critique, satire, historical debate, literary seduction, and poetry, and regularly change register from elevated theoretical language to popular Mexican word play or albures, indigenous and foreign languages, archaic and peninsular Spanish, and CalAA (a hybrid language spoken along the U.S.-Mexico border). While other Marcos collections have excerpted these stories from the communiques in which they originally appeared, Conversations With Durito contextualizes each one within the original communique, presenting them not simply as stories, but as documents of particular moments in the Zapatista struggle. To further this understanding, the communiquA a¬As are supplemented with a lengthy historical overview, brief introductions to each story, integrated footnotes and bibliographic resources, all adding critical political, historical, and cultu