This riveting account is a particularly good book to teach, especially at the advanced undergraduate and graduate level: it grapples with many issues, and although it doesn’t necessarily resolve them, it unmasks and demonstrates the rigors and some of the key components of the intellectual quest." - Jennifer L. " Adiós Niño is simultaneously painful and important. “The book is beautifully written… superb.” - Susanne Jonas, American Historical Review “…the book provides an effective exposé of the malaise brought by a US intervention.” - Paul Avakian, Global Dispatches It offers a powerful ethnography to unpack how lives of violence are produced over generations and how actions of the past leave deep formative traces in the present.” - Gareth A. “ Adiós is written in strong, often angry, prose…. I don’t know that I have seen a better explanation of what happens when revolutions fail, or a better explanation for why Guatemala’s contemporary youth gangs ought to be seen, as Levenson puts it, as 'orphans of the world' (98).” - Karen Dubinsky, Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth “This book is a must read, not only for those who are interested in Guatemala…. Levenson’s work earns a place on the essential reading list not only of scholars interested in gangs and Central America, but of all those interested in human rights and the effects of their systematic suppression in impoverished societies.” - J. “Deborah Levenson’s Adiós Niño is to date the most historically nuanced work on Guatemalan gangs…. “his is the book on gangs we need to read.” - Naomi Glassman, NACLA Report on the Americas Levenson’s prose is engaging and the stories are gripping.” - David Carey J., ReVista “Less than 200 pages long, Adiós Niño is a concise and riveting read. Above all the ethnographic work of an oral historian, Adiós Niño subtly weaves into its analytical fabric an eclectic array of theoretical voices, from Enrique Dussell to Michel Foucault." - Jeffery Webber, Los Angeles Review of Books " extraordinary history of the gangs of Guatemala City. Portraying the Maras as microcosms of broader tragedies, and pointing out the difficulties faced by those youth who seek to escape the gangs, Levenson poses important questions about the relationship between trauma, memory, and historical agency. Part of Guatemala City's reconfigured social, political, and cultural milieu, with their members often trapped in Guatemala's growing prison system, the gangs are used to justify remilitarization in Guatemala's contemporary postwar, post-peace era.
Levenson relates the stark changes in the Maras to global, national, and urban deterioration transregional gangs that intersect with the drug trade and the Guatemalan military's obliteration of radical popular movements and of social imaginaries of solidarity. A historical study, Adiós Niño describes how fragile spaces of friendship and exploration turned into rigid and violent ones in which youth, and especially young men, came to employ death as a natural way of living for the short period that they expected to survive. Levenson examines transformations in the Guatemalan gangs called Maras from their emergence in the 1980s to the early 2000s. In Adiós Niño: The Gangs of Guatemala City and the Politics of Death, Deborah T. Labor and Working-Class History Association.Association for Middle East Women's Studies.Author Resources from University Presses.Journals fulfilled by DUP Journal Services.
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