Indigenous Cosmolectics : Kab'awil and the Making of Maya and Zapotec Literatures /

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Latin America's Indigenous writers have long labored under the limits of colonialism, but in the late twentieth and twenty-first centuries, they have constructed a literary corpus that moves them beyond those parameters. Gloria E. Chacon considers the growing number of contemporary Indigenous w...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Chacón, Gloria Elizabeth (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2018]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Zapotec literature.
Mexican literature > Indian authors.
Maya literature.
Central American literature > Indian authors.
HISTORY > Latin America > Central America.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Native American.
Litterature zapoteque > Histoire et critique.
Litterature maya > Histoire et critique.
Central American literature > Indian authors > History and criticism.
Mexican literature > Indian authors > History and criticism.
Zapotec literature > History and criticism.
Maya literature > History and criticism.
Critiques litteraires.
Literary criticism.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • "Bilanguaging" indigenous texts
  • Introduction: sculpting cosmolectics
  • Literacy and power in Mesoamerica
  • The formation of the contemporary Mesoamerican author
  • Indigenous women, poetry, and the double gaze
  • Contemporary Maya women's theater
  • The novel in Zapotec and Maya lands
  • Inverting the gaze from California.

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