Indigenous Cosmolectics
Kab'awil and the Making of Maya and Zapotec Literatures
By Gloria Elizabeth Chacón
260 pp., 6.14 x 9.21, notes, bibl
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Paperback ISBN: 978-1-4696-3679-5
Published: November 2018 -
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4696-3675-7
Published: November 2018 -
E-book EPUB ISBN: 978-1-4696-3682-5
Published: September 2018 -
E-book PDF ISBN: 979-8-8908-5225-0
Published: September 2018
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Chacón recognizes that Indigenous writers draw from universal literary strategies but nevertheless argues that this literature is a vital center for reflecting on Indigenous ways of knowing and is a key artistic expression of decolonization.
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Gloria Elizabeth Chacón is assistant professor of literature at the University of California, San Diego. Chacón’s work has appeared in Canada, Colombia, Germany, Mexico, and the United States.
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"Chacón displays a wide knowledge of what's happening in contemporary Indigenous literature. . . . The story of this book looks both backward and forward, and ends where it began, questioning how literature and politics at once restrict Indigenous writing and allow it to grow."—Transmotion
"Chacón's important work should find ample readership . . . as much for her methodological approach as for the invaluable insights she produces through it. As a critical intervention into the field of literature in general. . . . Her text is thus a major contribution to the growing corpus of work that challenges readers and critics to think beyond the book and from Indigenous ways of knowing when engaging these works."—NAIS
"A meaningful contribution to the study of Indigenous cultural production, and particularly to the understanding of Indigenous literatures across Mesoamerica."--Tracy Devine Guzmán, University of Miami
"Indigenous Cosmolectics is a brilliant literary exploration of the interweaving of the splendid Indigenous past and their abject present. Chacón is a rising star and has produced an important book that casts a fresh light and changes our understanding of this crucial field."--Arturo Arias, University of California, Merced