TY - BOOK AU - Chacón,Gloria Elizabeth TI - Indigenous cosmolectics: kab'awil and the making of Maya and Zapotec literatures T2 - Critical indigeneities SN - 9781469636825 AV - PM3968 .C43 2018eb U1 - 897/.42709 23 PY - 2018///] CY - Chapel Hill PB - The University of North Carolina Press KW - Maya literature KW - History and criticism KW - Zapotec literature KW - Mexican literature KW - Indian authors KW - Central American literature KW - Littérature maya KW - Histoire et critique KW - Littérature zapotèque KW - LITERARY CRITICISM KW - Native American KW - bisacsh KW - HISTORY KW - Latin America KW - Central America KW - fast KW - Electronic books KW - Literary criticism KW - Criticism, interpretation, etc KW - lcgft KW - Critiques littéraires KW - rvmgf N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; "Bilanguaging" indigenous texts -- Introduction: sculpting cosmolectics -- Literacy and power in Mesoamerica -- The formation of the contemporary Mesoamerican author -- Indigenous women, poetry, and the double gaze -- Contemporary Maya women's theater -- The novel in Zapotec and Maya lands -- Inverting the gaze from California N2 - 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 UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=1904961 ER -