Zapatista Stories for Dreaming An-Other World with Antonia Carcelen

Zapatista Stories for Dreaming An-Other World with Antonia Carcelen Saturday, September 14th, 6pm to 7:30pm

Join PM Press at Autumn Leaves for our fourth event of the 2024 Ithaca is Books Festival, a talk on "Zapatista Stories for Dreaming Another World" with coauthor Antonia Carcelén. Co-sponsored by Cornell's Society for the Humanities.

In this gorgeous collection of allegorical stories, Subcomandante Marcos, idiosyncratic spokesperson of the Zapatistas, has provided "an accidental archive" of a revolutionary group's struggle against neoliberalism. For thirty years, the Zapatistas have influenced and inspired movements worldwide, showing that another world is possible. They have infused left politics with a distinct imaginary—and an imaginative, literary, or poetic dimension—organizing horizontally, outside and against the state, and with a profound respect for difference as a source of political insight, not division. With commentaries that illuminate their historical, political, and literary contexts and an introduction by the translators, this timeless, elegiac…