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Author Chacón, Gloria Elizabeth, author.

Title Indigenous cosmolectics : kab'awil and the making of Maya and Zapotec literatures / Gloria Elizabeth Chacón.

Publication Info. Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2018]

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Description 1 online resource.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Critical indigeneities
Critical indigeneities.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents "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.
Summary " ... 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"-- Provided by publisher.
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Subject Maya literature -- History and criticism.
Maya literature.
Zapotec literature -- History and criticism.
Zapotec literature.
Mexican literature -- Indian authors -- History and criticism.
Mexican literature -- Indian authors.
Central American literature -- Indian authors -- History and criticism.
Central American literature -- Indian authors.
Genre/Form Literary criticism.
Literary criticism.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Chacón, Gloria Elizabeth. Indigenous cosmolectics. Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2018] 9781469636757 (DLC) 2018004677 (OCoLC)1022979634
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