Indigenous cosmolectics : kab'awil and the making of Maya and Zapotec literatures

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

Author/creator	Chacón, Gloria Elizabeth author.
Format	Book and Print
Publication Info	Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2018]
Description	xiii, 243 pages ; 24 cm.
Subject(s)	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.

Series	Critical indigeneities Critical indigeneities. ^A1325681
Contents	Preface : "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 -- Epilogue : inverting the gaze from California.
Abstract	" ... 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"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references (pages 161-236) and index.
Genre/form	Criticism, interpretation, etc.
LCCN	2018004677
ISBN	9781469636757 hardcover ; alkaline paper
ISBN	1469636751 hardcover ; alkaline paper
ISBN	9781469636795 paperback ; alkaline paper
ISBN	1469636794 paperback ; alkaline paper
ISBN	electronic book

Library	Location	Call Number	Status	Item Actions
Joyner	General Stacks	PM3968 .C43 2018	✔ Available	Place Hold