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.
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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).
Inhalt
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