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Against the charred tapestry of the Zapatista guerilla uprising of January 1994, personal histories intersect in Erased Faces, a novel by Graciela Limón. Weaving the threads of Lacandón myth and history with the events culminating in the guerilla uprising, Limón creates a rich fabric that restores an identity to those rendered invisible, or whose faces were erased, by years of oppression. Adriana Mora, a Latina photojournalist born and raised in Los Angeles, haunted by childhood memories of her parents'death, abuse and displacement, journeys south to Chiapas, Mexico, in search of images to record on film. Initially, Mora finds a place in a small village where her path also crosses that of Chan K'in, the aged Lacandón shaman and interpreter of his people's mysticism. His stories recount the heroism of indigenous peoples of the past and offers possible keys to the resolution of the nightmares that plague her. In this village, Adriana meets Juana Galvez, a woman whose own heroism mirrors that of the women that Chan K'in describes. Adriana is immediately attracted to the small indigenous woman and her cause, so she follows Juana into the mountains where she is drawn into the tumultuous

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Author

Limon, Graciela

Publisher

Arte Público Press

Published

2015

Language

EN

ISBN

9781611921410

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction

Updated

2026-03-24