Words of the True Peoples Volume Three Theater - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Words of the True Peoples Volume Three Theater write by Carlos and Donald Frischmann Montemayor. This book was released on 2007. Words of the True Peoples Volume Three Theater available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Words of the True Peoples/Palabras de los Seres Verdaderos
Words of the True Peoples/Palabras de los Seres Verdaderos - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Words of the True Peoples/Palabras de los Seres Verdaderos write by Carlos Montemayor. This book was released on 2014-05-06. Words of the True Peoples/Palabras de los Seres Verdaderos available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. As part of the larger, ongoing movement throughout Latin America to reclaim non-Hispanic cultural heritages and identities, indigenous writers in Mexico are reappropriating the written word in their ancestral tongues and in Spanish. As a result, the long-marginalized, innermost feelings, needs, and worldviews of Mexico's ten to twenty million indigenous peoples are now being widely revealed to the Western societies with which these peoples coexist. To contribute to this process and serve as a bridge of intercultural communication and understanding, this groundbreaking, three-volume anthology gathers works by the leading generation of writers in thirteen Mexican indigenous languages: Nahuatl, Maya, Tzotzil, Tzeltal, Tojolabal, Tabasco Chontal, Purepecha, Sierra Zapoteco, Isthmus Zapoteco, Mazateco, Ñahñu, Totonaco, and Huichol. Volume Three contains plays by six Mexican indigenous writers. Their plays appear first in their native language, followed by English and Spanish translations. Montemayor and Frischmann have abundantly annotated the Spanish, English, and indigenous-language texts and added glossaries and essays that introduce the work of each playwright and discuss the role of theater within indigenous communities. These supporting materials make the anthology especially accessible and interesting for nonspecialist readers seeking a greater understanding of Mexico's indigenous peoples.
The Serpent's Plumes
The Serpent's Plumes - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Serpent's Plumes write by Adam W. Coon. This book was released on 2024-05-01. The Serpent's Plumes available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Serpent's Plumes analyzes contemporary Nahua cultural production, principally bilingual Nahuatl-Spanish xochitlajtoli, or "poetry," written from the 1980s to the present. Adam W. Coon draws on Nahua perspectives as a decolonizing theoretical framework to argue that Nahua writers deploy unique worldviews—namely, ixtlamatilistli ("knowledge with the face," which highlights the value of personal experiences); yoltlajlamikilistli ("knowledge with the heart," which underscores the importance of affective intelligence); and tlaixpan ("that which is in front," which presents the past as lying ahead of a subject rather than behind). The views of ixtlamatilistli, yoltlajlamikilistli, and tlaixpan are key in Nahua struggles and effectively challenge those who attempt to marginalize Native knowledge production.
Indigenous North American Drama
Indigenous North American Drama - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Indigenous North American Drama write by Birgit Däwes. This book was released on 2013-01-01. Indigenous North American Drama available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Traces the historical dimensions of Native North American drama using a critical perspective.
Indigenous Cosmolectics
Indigenous Cosmolectics - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Indigenous Cosmolectics write by Gloria Elizabeth Chacón. This book was released on 2018-09-28. Indigenous Cosmolectics available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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. Chacon 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. Chacon argues that these Maya and Zapotec authors reconstruct an Indigenous literary tradition rooted in an Indigenous cosmolectics, a philosophy originally grounded in pre-Columbian sacred conceptions of the cosmos, time, and place, and now expressed in creative writings. More specifically, she attends to Maya and Zapotec literary and cultural forms by theorizing kab'awil as an Indigenous philosophy. Tackling the political and literary implications of this work, Chacon argues that Indigenous writers' use of familiar genres alongside Indigenous language, use of oral traditions, and new representations of selfhood and nation all create space for expressions of cultural and political autonomy. Chacon recognizes that Indigenous writers draw from universal literary strategies but nevertheless argues that this literature is a vital center for reflecting on Indigenous ways of knowing and is a key artistic expression of decolonization.
