Indigenous cosmolectics : kab'awil and the making of Maya and Zapotec literatures /
Chacón, Gloria Elizabeth,
Indigenous cosmolectics : kab'awil and the making of Maya and Zapotec literatures / Gloria Elizabeth Chacón. - Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, (c)2018. - 1 online resource. - Critical indigeneities .
Includes bibliographies and index.
"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.
" ... Focusing on work produced in the late twentieth and twenty-first centuries, Chacón looks at the growing number of contemporary Indigenous writers who are reclaiming Maya and Zapotec languages alongside Spanish translations of their work, challenging monolingualism, and reconstructing an Indigenous literary tradition"--
9781469636825 9781469636856
Maya literature--History and criticism.
Zapotec literature--History and criticism.
Mexican literature--Indian authors--History and criticism.
Central American literature--Indian authors--History and criticism.
Electronic Books.
PM3968 / .I535 2018
Indigenous cosmolectics : kab'awil and the making of Maya and Zapotec literatures / Gloria Elizabeth Chacón. - Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, (c)2018. - 1 online resource. - Critical indigeneities .
Includes bibliographies and index.
"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.
" ... Focusing on work produced in the late twentieth and twenty-first centuries, Chacón looks at the growing number of contemporary Indigenous writers who are reclaiming Maya and Zapotec languages alongside Spanish translations of their work, challenging monolingualism, and reconstructing an Indigenous literary tradition"--
9781469636825 9781469636856
Maya literature--History and criticism.
Zapotec literature--History and criticism.
Mexican literature--Indian authors--History and criticism.
Central American literature--Indian authors--History and criticism.
Electronic Books.
PM3968 / .I535 2018