Indigenous Cosmolectics Kab awil and the Making of Maya and Zapotec Literatures 1st Edition by Gloria Elizabeth Chacaon ISBN 1469636794 9781469636795

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ISBN 10: 1469636794

ISBN 13: 9781469636795 

Author: Gloria Elizabeth Chacaon 

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. Chacón 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. Chacón 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, Chacón 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.

Chacón 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.

Table of contents:

Cover
Half Title, Title Page, Copyright, Dedication
Contents
Preface: “Bilanguaging” Indigenous Texts
Introduction: Sculpting Cosmolectics
Chapter One. Literacy and Power in Mesoamerica
Chapter Two. The Formation of the Contemporary Mesoamerican Author
Chapter Three. Indigenous Women, Poetry, and the Double Gaze
Chapter Four. Contemporary Maya Women’s Theater
Chapter Five. The Novel in Zapotec and Maya Lands
Epilogue: Inverting the Gaze from California
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index

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