Entre fuegos, memoria y violencia de Estado

“The armed struggle that both preceded and followed on the 1968 Tlatelolco Massacre became on a way the ‘unconscious’ of Mexican modernity in the last third of the twentieth century, eclipsed by the more spectacular rise of narco violence. That has changed with the new century and there is now an ample corpus of films, novels, testimonios, memoirs on the armed struggle. Aurelia Gomez’s book is the first to provide a critical overview of this corpus and its significance in Mexican politics, history and culture today.” — John Beverley, Emeritus Distinguished Professor of Hispanic Languages and Literatures, University of Pittsburgh

“The work of Aurelia Gómez-Unamuno on the literature and memory of recent history in Mexico is strongly relevant and original. Although for several years now a number of people in the country have carried out research on the student movement of 1968, academic work on the guerrillas and the dirty war of the 1970s and 1980s has begun only recently. Aurelia’s work is part of that innovative sector of academia that is approaching issues that had been relatively marginalized. She has focused on the literary memories of the armed movements, as well as on the role played by women in these organizations, something no one else has worked on. Entre fuegos, memoria y violencia de Estado is destined to become an obligatory reference for works on recent Mexican history.” — Eugenia Allier-Montaño, Investigadora titular del Instituto de Investigaciones Sociales de la UNAM y docente en el Colegio de Estudios Latinoamericanos de la Facultad de Filosofía y Letras (UNAM)

“Este es un libro fundamental para abordar un archivo testimonial e histórico a través de la cual se pusieron en narrativa aspectos cruciales para la construcción de una memoria de movimientos armados socialistas y de las formas de violencia ejercidas desde el Estado. Un aspecto crucial de la contribución que hace Entre fuegos, memoria y violencia de Estado es otorgar un espacio para el análisis y la interpretación de textos que nos permiten enlazar memoria, testimonio e historia, postulando así la necesaria apertura de los modos en que interpretamos cuatro décadas cruciales en la historia mexicana.” — Susana Draper, Associated Professor of Comparative Literatures, Princeton University