kab'awil and the making of Maya and Zapotec literatures /
Gloria Elizabeth Chacón.
Chapel Hill :
The University of North Carolina Press,
[2018]
1 online resource
Critical indigeneities
Includes bibliographical references 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.
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" ... 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"--
JSTOR
22573/ctv67t2xt
Indigenous cosmolectics.
9781469636757
Central American literature-- Indian authors-- History and criticism.
Maya literature-- History and criticism.
Mexican literature-- Indian authors-- History and criticism.