Writing the Land, Writing Humanity: The Maya Literary Renaissance

ISBN-13: 9781032237909 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 294 str.

Charles M. Pigott

Opis

The Maya Literary Renaissance is a growing yet little-known literary phenomenon that can redefine our understanding of "literature" universally. By analyzing eight representative texts, the book synthesizes core Maya concepts with diverse theories to reveal how literature constantly emerges from wider creative patterns in nature.

Spis treści

Prologue

Chapter One: Literary Inhabitation

Part One: Lu’um: Writing the Land

Chapter Two: My Land

Chapter Three: Memories from the Heart of the Forest

Chapter Four: They Sing

Chapter Five: A Dog’s Lament of a Dog’s Life

Part Two: Wíinik: Writing Humanity

Chapter Six: Primordial Fire

Chapter Seven: Tales of Old Mother Corn

Chapter Eight: The Suffering of My Village and Women of Today

Chapter Nine: Grandfather Gregorio: A Maya Sage

Epilogue: Towards an Intercultural and Translingual Ecocriticism

O autorze

Charles M. Pigott is an Assistant Professor of Literature at UDLAP and Quondam Fellow of Hughes Hall (Cambridge). His other publications include "Maize and Semiotic Emergence in a Contemporary Maya Tale" (Tapuya), "The Last Inca: Hegemony and Abjection in an Andean Poetics of Discrimination" (Modern Languages Open) and "Ecological Ethics in Andean Songs" (Studies in American Indian Literatures).