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

by Gloria Elizabeth Chacaon and Gloria Elizabeth Chacón

Book Overview

Latin America's Indigenous writers have long labored under the limits of colonialism, but in the late twentieth and twenty-first centuries, they have constructed a literary corpus that moves them beyond those parameters. Gloria E. Chac n 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1469636794
• ISBN13: 9781469636795
• Release Date: November 2018
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 260 Pages
• Weight: 1.02 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.4" x 9.0"