Texte remanié de: Th. 3e cycle--Paris--École des hautes études en sciences sociales, 1983. / Bibliogr. p. 303-318.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of California, Davis, 2004. / Degree granted in Anthropology. Also available via the World Wide Web. (Restricted to UC campuses)

This study draws parallels between the dramatic works Rabinal Achí­, an anonymous ancient Mayan text, and the Luis Valdez masterpiece Zoot Suit. The parallel that I seek to establish is one of the strong trend of historical revisionism in both works as well as a parallel development of plot and characterization. This work does not claim to be representative of revisionism as a whole, nor does it seek to establish a new official history, but it does to demonstrate how both works, even though they are separated by hundreds of years, share a common bond of subversion and direct opposition to established norms and to the "facts" of a recorded official history in an attempt to give voice to the experience of the historically overlooked individual.