Indigenous Cosmolectics: Kab'awil and the Making of Maya and Zapotec Literatures

ISBN-13: 9781469636757 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 260 str.

Gloria Elizabeth Chacon

Opis

Considers the growing number of contemporary Indigenous writers who turn to Maya and Zapotec languages alongside Spanish translations of their work to challenge the tyranny of monolingualism and cultural homogeneity. Gloria E. Chacon argues that these Maya and Zapotec authors reconstruct an Indigenous literary tradition rooted in an Indigenous cosmolectics.