A man travels from Korea to Mexico in 1905 to work the henequen plantations of Yucatán. He is resurrected in the “stories”—memories, testimonies, and myths—shared by his children and grandchildren in 2015. As a conversation transcending time and space progresses between the “I” who mediates the stories and “the man” who performs the articulated stories, the boundaries between fictional tales and actual occurrences begin to blur: the stories become history and...
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A man travels from Korea to Mexico in 1905 to work the henequen plantations of Yucatán. He is resurrected in the “stories”—memories, testimonies, and myths—shared by his children and grandchildren in 2015. As a conversation transcending time and space progresses between the “I” who mediates the stories and “the man” who performs the articulated stories, the boundaries between fictional tales and actual occurrences begin to blur: the stories become history and history becomes a story.
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