Berenice Granados Vázquez. Emiliano Zapata. Vida y virtudes según cuentan en Morelos.

México: LANMO Editorial, UNAM, 2018; 450 pp.

Abstract

"Official history has its channels for turning human beings into heroes, symbols, myths or legends. Their demystification, if anything, can be produced by resorting to memory, whether it is consigned in an archive or in the oral word transmitted by the people who are part of the spaces of meaning. As we know, not all of them have been able to be links in the chain that constitutes an archive, but receivers and transmitters of the networks that animate the word and that approach the fire to give light to history, to use Agamben's metaphor in The Fire and the Story (2016)..."