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Living Lives of Resistance in Multiple Registers

This chapter explores one Maya Ixil woman’s stories of resistance in the context of genocidal violence, exile, and postconflict transitional justice processes. Through the analysis and re-analysis of narratives from in-depth interviews in 1992 and 2015 that bookend nearly three decades of a dialogic relationship between the author and this Maya Ixil woman, the author explores her shifting understandings of Maria Izabel’s silence about her past upon her return from exile. Through repositioning herself vis-à-vis multiple possible meanings of silence in contexts of genocidal violence, human rights activism, and transitional justice processes, the author discusses how Maria Izabel’s co-constructed stories crafted through their decades-long dialogic relationship in diverse historical contexts, narrated changes in both of their lives. The chapter further documents processes through which the author sought to “stand under” Maria Izabel’s diverse narratives at these distinctly different historical moments of social change and Mayan struggle in Guatemala.