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Indigenous cosmolectics : kab'awil and the making of Maya and Zapotec literatures / Gloria Elizabeth Chacón.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Publication details: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, (c)2018.Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781469636825
  • 9781469636856
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • PM3968 .I535 2018
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
Contents:
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.
Subject: " ... 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"--
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Online Book (LOGIN USING YOUR MY CIU LOGIN AND PASSWORD) Online Book (LOGIN USING YOUR MY CIU LOGIN AND PASSWORD) G. Allen Fleece Library ONLINE Non-fiction PM3968 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Link to resource Available on1055160998

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"--

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