Recovering Lost Footprints
State University of New York Press (Verlag)
978-1-4384-7258-4 (ISBN)
Recovering Lost Footprints, Volume 2 is an in-depth analysis of the sociohistorical conflict impacting Indigenous communities in Latin America. Continuing the project he began in volume 1, Arturo Arias analyzes contemporary Peninsular and Chiapanecan Maya narratives. He examines the works of Yucatecan writers Jorge Cocom Pech, Javier Gómez Navarrete, Isaac Carrillo Can, and Marisol Ceh Moo. For Chiapas, Arias looks at the works of Tseltal novelist Diego Méndez Guzmán, Tsotsil short-story writer Nicolás Huet Bautista, and Tseltal narrative writer Josías López Gómez. Arias problematizes the nature of Western modernity and the crisis of Western models of development in the present. By way of his analysis, he suggests that we are facing a historical impasse because we have neglected native knowledges that offer alternative codes of ethics and beingness that emerge from Indigenous cosmovisions. The text skillfully contributes to and strengthens debates between US-centered and Latin American cultural studies theorists, as well as the hemispheric expansion of Native American and Indigenous Studies. Recovering Lost Footprints, Volume 2 is inspired more by the past as it impinges upon a continuing, constantly expanding present. Arias's reading of Maya literatures forces us to reconsider the space-time structure of Western thinking. Indeed, this book is intriguing precisely because it views literature from an Indigenous perspective, evidencing how that social space is full of multiple contrasting experiences and historical processes.
Arturo Arias is John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Professor in the Humanities at the University of California, Merced and the author of Recovering Lost Footprints, Volume 1: Contemporary Maya Narratives, also published by SUNY Press.
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I. Peninsular Mayas
1. How Peninsular Narrative Happened
2. Jorge Cocom Pech, Javier Gómez Navarrete, and Isaac Carrillo Can: Three Generations of Writers Reconfiguring Peninsular Maya Cosmovision
3. A Prolific Woman Novelist Takes Center Stage: Marisol Ceh Moo
Part II. Emerging Narratives in Chiapas
4. Chiapanecan Indigenous Writers Begin to Tell Stories
5. How It All Began in Chiapanecan Narrativities
6. Josías López Gómez: A Prolific Narrator
Conclusion
Notes
Works Cited
Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 10.05.2021 |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | Albany, NY |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Gewicht | 531 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-4384-7258-7 / 1438472587 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-4384-7258-4 / 9781438472584 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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