| Description |
1 online resource |
| Contents |
Who tells what to whom and how : orality, literacy, and cultural control -- Writing THE word : storytellers, cultural brokers, and the shape of Indigenous memory -- Into the archive : cultural brokers, cultural control, and writing oral Maya literature in the twentieth century -- "I'll tell you the story ... " : Mariano Bonilla Caamal and storytelling as cultural control -- Telling Maya modernity : the works of María Lusia Góngora Pacheco, Ana Patricia Martínez Huchim, and Briceida Cuevas Cob -- Appendix 1 : "The dwarf of Uxmal" as told by Luis Gonzaga (José May) -- Appendix 2 : "The dwarf of Uxmal" as told by Humberto Bonilla Caamal -- Appendix 3 : "The story of Juan Rabbit" as told by Mariano Bonilla Caamal |
| Summary |
Through performance and the spoken word, Yucatec Maya storytellers have maintained the vitality of their literary traditions for more than five hundred years. This book presents the figure of the storyteller as a symbol of Indigenous cultural control in contemporary Yucatec Maya literatures. Analyzing the storyteller as the embodiment of Indigenous knowledge in written and oral texts, this book highlights how Yucatec Maya literatures play a vital role in imaginings of Maya culture and its relationships with Mexican and global cultures |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Maya literature -- History and criticism
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Storytelling -- Mexico -- Yucatán (State)
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
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Maya literature
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Storytelling
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Mexico -- Yucatán (State)
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2012045685 |
| ISBN |
0816599092 |
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9780816599097 |
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