ABSTRACT
[W]e came out of the shadows, we had no glory and we had no rights, and that is why we are beginning to tell of our history … the misfortune of ancestors, exiles, and servitude. It will enumerate not so much victories, as the defeats to which we have to submit during our long wait for the promised lands and the fulfilment of the old promises that will of course re-establish both the rights of old and the glory that has been lost.1
