Ways of Indigenous Self-Rule: Remaking Nations, Remaking Law presented by Professor Stephen Cornell as part of the 2010 Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga Seminar Series.
The most important response to the post-war period changes in Central America, to the exhaustion of testimonio and to the hybrid contradictions of representation of the subaltern subject by the Mestizo letrado, is given by Maya literature. Maya literature is a notable effort because of both its bilingualism and its representation of a uniquely different gaze on the Americas as a whole.