For 10 years, Sittig and Gonzßlez recorded stories of Mayan women working at meatpacking plants in Nebraska, translating from the several spoken Mayan languages to written Spanish, then translating again into English for this volume. The women discuss their childhoods in Guatemala, the civil war, the Peace Accords and processes, the subsequent migration in search of economic stability, life in their new Nebraska communities, and their work at the meatpacking plant. They weave their millenary culture through the narratives.--From publisher description.
- | Author: Ann L. Sittig, Martha Florinda Gonzßlez
- | Publisher: Bison Books
- | Publication Date: Mar 01, 2016
- | Number of Pages: 216 pages
- | Language: English
- | Binding: Hardcover/Social Science
- | ISBN-10: 0803284616
- | ISBN-13: 9780803284616
