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In effect, in Pastwatch, it seems easier to alter the past than the present. By the time the reality spawned by Columbus’s vision on the beach and his consequent arrival in the Americas produces Diko and Kemal’s generation, the earth has once again become imperiled. These two, and another colleague7—a young, modern Maya named Hunahpu—decide to make an intervention of their own into the past. Not surprisingly, they, too, choose for their intervention the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries as well as the figure of Columbus himself.
28 ● Time Travel in Latin American and Caribbean Imagination Another writer—this one from the Americas—who has taken up the Columbus myth is Carlos Fuentes. He may be unsurpassed in contemporary Latin American letters in terms of the scope of his writings on literature, history, and, more specifically, the ways Latin Americans construct a collective past. ”2 In other words, Mexico—not only for him but for many other intellectuals—is a place that has not fully entered a modern temporality governed by what might be considered a “conventional” chronology.
Ultimately, “the natives are all neatly lined up in a civilized way, while the sailors head for the ships with the heavy bags filled with the local mineral” (144). In many ways, Eco’s playful and anachronistic depiction of Columbus’s voyage nonetheless manages a not-so-subtle critique of so-called cultural and technological progress. Simultaneously, the story clearly and unequivocally references— via a modern news crew reporting at the scene—the newcomers’ unabashed greed as well as the initial phase of a regimen of brutality the Europeans visited upon the indigenous Americans.