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Telling and Being Told: Storytelling and Cultural Control in Contemporary Yucatec Maya Literatures
Paul M. Worley
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Description for Telling and Being Told: Storytelling and Cultural Control in Contemporary Yucatec Maya Literatures
Hardcover. Oral literature has been excluded from the analysis of Yucatec Maya literature, but it is a key component and a vital force in the cultural communities and their contemporary writing. "Telling and Being Told "shows the vital role Yucatec storytelling claims in Mayan ways of knowing and in the Mexican literary canon. " Num Pages: 216 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DSB; JFHF; JFSL9; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 499.
Through performance and the spoken word, Yucatec Maya storytellers have maintained the vitality of their literary traditions for more than five hundred years. Telling and Being Told presents the figure of the storyteller as a symbol of indigenous cultural control in contemporary Yucatec Maya literatures. Analysing the storyteller as the embodiment of indigenous knowledge in written and oral texts, this book highlights how Yucatec Maya literatures play a vital role in imaginings of Maya culture and its relationships with Mexican and global cultures.
Through performance, storytellers place the past in dynamic relationship with the present, each continually evolving ... Read more
Through performance and the spoken word, Yucatec Maya storytellers have maintained the vitality of their literary traditions for more than five hundred years. Telling and Being Told presents the figure of the storyteller as a symbol of indigenous cultural control in contemporary Yucatec Maya literatures. Analysing the storyteller as the embodiment of indigenous knowledge in written and oral texts, this book highlights how Yucatec Maya literatures play a vital role in imaginings of Maya culture and its relationships with Mexican and global cultures.
Through performance, storytellers place the past in dynamic relationship with the present, each continually evolving ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
University of Arizona Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
216
Place of Publication
Tucson, United States
ISBN
9780816530267
SKU
V9780816530267
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About Paul M. Worley
Paul M. Worley is an assistant professor of Spanish in the Department of Modern and Classical Languages and Literatures at the University of North Dakota, USA. His work has appeared in Chasqui and in the volume Resistant Strategies. Stories collected as part of his research are available at the website tsikbalichmaya.org.
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