kab'awil and the making of Maya and Zapotec literatures /
First Statement of Responsibility
Gloria Elizabeth Chacón.
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Chapel Hill :
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The University of North Carolina Press,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
[2018]
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
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1 online resource
SERIES
Series Title
Critical indigeneities
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
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"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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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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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"--
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JSTOR
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22573/ctv67t2xt
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Title
Indigenous cosmolectics.
International Standard Book Number
9781469636757
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Central American literature-- Indian authors-- History and criticism.
Maya literature-- History and criticism.
Mexican literature-- Indian authors-- History and criticism.