Subcomandante Insurgente Marcos

Cornelia Gräbner (Lancaster University)

Ed. by Ben Bollig, University of Oxford
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 4.1.3: Hispanic Writing and Culture of Central America and the Caribbean.
Vol. editors: Ben Bollig (University of Oxford), Ceire Broderick (University College Cork), Nuala Finnegan (University College Cork), Anna Forné (Gothenburg University), Cara Levey (University College Cork), Lori Oxford (Western Carolina University), Ailsa Peate (University of Westminster)

Dates

Born 19 Jun 1957
Died 25 May 2014
Activity 1994-2014

Places

Born in Mexico
Active in Mexico

Activities

Primary

Military commander
Prose writer
Revolutionary, Activist

Resources

Marcos' Works

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Subcomandante Insurgente Marcos is the spokesman of the

guerrilla

group EZLN (

Ejército Zapatista para la Liberación Nacional

– National Zapatista Liberation Army), and also the author of a large corpus of texts in a variety of genres, among them chronicles, political communiqués, theoretical articles, stories, re-writings of history, and open letters. He first entered the public sphere during the Zapatista Uprising in Chiapas, Southern Mexico, on 1 January 1994. Since then, he has carried out a variety of public and military functions for this group. Crucial to any understanding of Marcos’ work are three aspects: the construction of the author-figure for the purpose of encompassing multiple identities, such as that of the spokesman and that of the author; the inseparability of his…

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Citation: Gräbner, Cornelia. "Subcomandante Insurgente Marcos". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 25 February 2011; last revised 15 May 2015. [https://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=12907, accessed 19 April 2024.]

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