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 volume is perfect for lovers of literature and lovers of revolution.

Antonia Carcelén is the coauthor of Zapatista Stories for Dreaming Another World and teaches oral and postcolonial literature at USFQ, Ecuador and Sarah Lawrence College in the United States. She traverses disciplines and borders to weave the histories of Muslim, Black, and Indigenous peoples and their literary imaginations as they articulate a decolonial resistance against contemporary regimes of oppression.