**Connecting Guatemala, Australia and the World: Violence in Horacio Castellanos Moya’s *Senselessness* and Mark McKenna’s _Looking for Blackfellas’ Point_**

Abstract

ver thirteen-and-a-half thousand kilometres separate Guatemala City and the Bega Valley on the far south coast of New South Wales. However, the five or so years leading up to the new millennium saw both places host particularly significant attempts to recover and to thwart the recovery of the historical experience of war and the government-sponsored oppression of two Indigenous populations.