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Unwriting Maya literature : ts'íib as recorded knowledge
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- Online
- Summary
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"This volume provides a decolonial framework for reading Maya and Indigenous texts"--Provided by publisher.
Details
- Creator
- Paul M. Worley, Rita M. Palacios
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- Tucson : The University of Arizona Press, 2019
- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource (249 pages)
- data file
- ISBNs
- 0816539871, 0816534276, 9780816539871, 9780816534272
- OCLC
- on1096536359
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: This Is a Work on Maya Ts'íib, Not Maya Literature; 1. Maya Ts'íib and Legacies of Performing Reading and Writing; 2. Multiple Literacies, Multiple Worlds: Maya Textiles as Ts'íib; 3. My Words Are Weaving: Unraveling the Distance Between Text and Textile in the Work of Calixta Gabriel Xiquín and Ruperta Bautista Vázquez; 4. Ts'íib and a Poetics of Gender in the Work of Humberto Ak'abal and Rosa Chávez; 5. Performing Maya Literary Histories: Cha'anil, Pan- Maya Aesthetics, and the Books of the Chilam Balam
- 6. My Word Is My Rebellion: Waldemar Noh Tzec, K'anel, and the Refusals of Translation7. A Politics of Creation: Ts'íib, Material Culture, and the Artisan/Artist; Conclusions; Notes; References; Index; About the Authors