期刊名称：Journal of Alternative Perspectives in the Social Sciences
印刷版ISSN：1944-1088
电子版ISSN：1944-1096
出版年度：2009
卷号：1
期号：2
页码：258-280
出版社：Guild of Independent Scholars
摘要：This article examines contesting interpretations regarding the meaning of the Mexican national hero Emiliano Zapata. It discusses how the 1994 Zapatista uprising does not only question the relationship between the dominant post-colonial mestizo Mexican society and the indigenous groups, but also questions the historiography of Mexico. It shows how the Mexican government and the revolutionary Zapatista movement appropriate an identical national symbol for their respective interpretations of history. Indigenous exclusion through the official historical discourse is challenged by the Zapatistas by claiming their own historical discourse, linking it to Mayan mentalities and transferring it to groups and individuals whose 'invisible histories' are not part of a dominant societal ideology
