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Holy Wednesday : a Nahua drama from early colonial Mexico / Louise M. Burkhart.
De Gruyter University of Pennsylvania Press eBook Package Archive 1898-1999 Available online
View online- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Burkhart, Louise M., 1958-
- Series:
- New cultural studies.
- New cultural studies
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Nahuatl drama--History and criticism.
- Nahuatl drama.
- Religious drama, Nahuatl--History and criticism.
- Religious drama, Nahuatl.
- Christian drama, Mexican--History and criticism.
- Christian drama, Mexican.
- Ash Wednesday--Mexico.
- Ash Wednesday.
- Holy Week--Mexico.
- Holy Week.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (328 pages) : illustrations
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 1996.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Identified only in 1986, the Nahuatl Holy Week play is the earliest known dramatic script in any Native American language. In Holy Wednesday, Louise Burkhart presents side-by-side English translations of the Nahuatl play and its Spanish source. An accompanying commentary analyzes the differences between the two versions to reveal how the native author altered the Spanish text to fit his own aesthetic sensibility and the broader discursive universe of the Nahua church. A richly detailed introduction places both works and their creators within the cultural and political contexts of late sixteenth-century Mexico and Spain.
- Contents:
- pt. 1. The setting
- pt. 2. The plays.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [291]-306) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786613210722
- 9781283210720
- 128321072X
- 9780812200249
- 0812200241
- 9780585116884
- 0585116881
- OCLC:
- 44961186
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