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portada Le Maya q'Atzij/Our Maya Word: Poetics of Resistance in Guatemala
Type
Physical Book
Author
Publisher
Language
English
Pages
264
Format
Paperback
Dimensions
21.3x13.7x2 cm
Weight
0.36 kg.
ISBN13
9781517908089
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Le Maya q'Atzij/Our Maya Word: Poetics of Resistance in Guatemala

Keme (Author) · University of Minnesota Press · Paperback

Le Maya q'Atzij/Our Maya Word: Poetics of Resistance in Guatemala - Keme

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Synopsis "Le Maya q'Atzij/Our Maya Word: Poetics of Resistance in Guatemala"

Bringing to the fore the voices of Maya authors and what their poetry tells us about resistance, sovereignty, trauma, and regeneration In 1954, Guatemala suffered a coup d'etat, resulting in a decades-long civil war. During this period, Indigenous Mayans were subject to displacement, disappearance, and extrajudicial killing. Within the context of the armed conflict and the postwar period in Guatemala, K'iche' Maya scholar Emil' Keme identifies three historical phases of Indigenous Maya literary insurgency in which Maya authors use poetry to dignify their distinct cultural, political, gender, sexual, and linguistic identities.Le Maya Q'atzij / Our Maya Word employs Indigenous and decolonial theoretical frameworks to critically analyze poetic works written by ten contemporary Maya writers from five different Maya nations in Iximulew/Guatemala. Similar to other Maya authors throughout colonial history, these authors and their poetry criticize, in their own creative ways, the continuing colonial assaults to their existence by the nation-state. Throughout, Keme displays the decolonial potentialities and shortcomings proposed by each Maya writer, establishing a new and productive way of understanding Maya living realities and their emancipatory challenges in Iximulew/Guatemala.This innovative work shows how Indigenous Maya poetics carries out various processes of decolonization and, especially, how Maya literature offers diverse and heterogeneous perspectives about what it means to be Maya in the contemporary world.

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