Writing the Land, Writing Humanity

The Maya Literary Renaissance
1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-0-367-47352-5
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 294 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 582 g

Reihe: Perspectives on the Non-Human in Literature and Culture

The Maya Literary Renaissance is a growing yet little-known literary phenomenon that can redefine our understanding of "literature" universally. By analyzing eight representative texts of this new and vibrant literary movement, the book argues that the texts present literature as a trans-species phenomenon that is not reducible only to human creativity. Based on detailed textual analysis of the literature in both Maya and Spanish as well as first-hand conversations with the writers themselves, the book develops the first conceptual map of how literature constantly emerges from wider creative patterns in nature. This process, defined as literary inhabitation, is explained by synthesizing core Maya cultural concepts with diverse philosophical, literary, anthropological and biological theories. In the context of the Yucatan Peninsula, where the texts come from, literary inhabitation is presented as an integral part of bioregional becoming, the evolution of the Peninsula as a constantly unfolding dialogue.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Pigott, Charles M.

Fachgebiete

• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften, Biologie: Sachbuch, Naturführer
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Stoffe, Motive und Themen
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Romanische Literaturen Lateinamerikanische Literaturen, Spanische Literatur außerhalb Europas
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Indigene Völker

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Prologue

Chapter One: Literary Inhabitation

Part One: Lu’um: Writing the Land

Chapter Two: My Land

Chapter Three: Memories from the Heart of the Forest

Chapter Four: They Sing

Chapter Five: A Dog’s Lament of a Dog’s Life

Part Two: Wíinik: Writing Humanity

Chapter Six: Primordial Fire

Chapter Seven: Tales of Old Mother Corn

Chapter Eight: The Suffering of My Village and Women of Today

Chapter Nine: Grandfather Gregorio: A Maya Sage

Epilogue: Towards an Intercultural and Translingual Ecocriticism

Über Autor(innen)

Charles M. Pigott is a Lecturer in Hispanic Studies at University of Strathclyde and Quondam Fellow of Hughes Hall (Cambridge). His other publications include "Maize and Semiotic Emergence in a Contemporary Maya Tale" (Tapuya), "The Last Inca: Hegemony and Abjection in an Andean Poetics of Discrimination" (Modern Languages Open) and "Ecological Ethics in Andean Songs" (Studies in American Indian Literatures).