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Telling and being told : storytelling and cultural control in contemporary Yucatec Maya literatures /

Through performance and the spoken word, Yucatec Maya storytellers have maintained the vitality of their literary traditions for more than five hundred years. This book presents the figure of the storyteller as a symbol of Indigenous cultural control in contemporary Yucatec Maya literatures. Analyzi...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Worley, Paul M., 1976- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Tucson : University of Arizona Press, ©2013.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Who tells what to whom and how : orality, literacy, and cultural control
  • Writing THE word : storytellers, cultural brokers, and the shape of Indigenous memory
  • Into the archive : cultural brokers, cultural control, and writing oral Maya literature in the twentieth century
  • "I'll tell you the story ... " : Mariano Bonilla Caamal and storytelling as cultural control
  • Telling Maya modernity : the works of María Lusia Góngora Pacheco, Ana Patricia Martínez Huchim, and Briceida Cuevas Cob
  • Appendix 1 : "The dwarf of Uxmal" as told by Luis Gonzaga (José May)
  • Appendix 2 : "The dwarf of Uxmal" as told by Humberto Bonilla Caamal
  • Appendix 3 : "The story of Juan Rabbit" as told by Mariano Bonilla Caamal.