Indigenous cosmolectics: kab'awil and the making of maya and zapotec literatures
Auteur :
Chacón, Gloria Elizabeth
Éditeur :
The University of North Carolina Press
ISBN :
9781469636757
Date de publication :
12 nov. 2018
Dimensions :
23,3 x 15,5 x 1,9 cm
Poids :
568 g
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
USA
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.