Words of the True Peoples: Anthology of Contemporary Mexican Indigenous-Language Writers, Volume 2: Poetry
by Carlos Montemayor, Donald H. Frischmann
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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 show more 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, ©ahøu, Totonaco, and Huichol. Volume Two contains poetry by Mexican indigenous writers. Their poems 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 discuss the formal and linguistic qualities of the poems, as well as their place within contemporary poetry. These supporting materials make the anthology especially accessible and interesting for nonspecialist readers seeking a greater understanding of Mexico's indigenous peoples. show lessTags
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Carlos Montemayor, PhD. (2009) Rutgers University, is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at San Francisco State University. His interdisciplinary research on the representation of time includes "Time: Biological, Intentional and Cultural" in Time: Limits and Constraints (Brill, 2010).
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- Words of the True Peoples: Anthology of Contemporary Mexican Indigenous-Language Writers, Volume 2: Poetry
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- Fiction and Literature, Literature Studies and Criticism
- DDC/MDS
- 897.0972 — Literature & rhetoric Literatures of other languages Literatures of North American native languages Mesoamerica
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- PM3082 .W67 — Language and Literature Hyperborean, Native American, and artificial languages Hyperborean, Indian, and artificial languages Indian languages Languages of Mexico and Central America
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