Recovering lost footprints. Volume 1, Contemporary Maya narratives / Arturo Arias.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Arias, Arturo, 1950- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Maya literature--History and criticism.

Maya literature.

Guatemalan literature--History and criticism.

Guatemalan literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (296 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Albany : State University of New York Press, [2017]

Summary:

Recovering Lost Footprints is the first full-length critical study to analyze Latin American Indigenous literary narratives in a systematic manner. In the book, Arturo Arias looks at Maya narratives in Guatemala. The study of these works is intended to spark changes so that constitutions recognize these cultures, their rights, their languages, their centers of worship, and their cosmologies. Through this study, Arias problematizes the partial or full omission of Latin America's original inhabitants from recognized citizenry. This book analyzes these elements of exclusion in the novelistic output of three salient figures, Luis de Lión, Gaspar Pedro González, and Víctor Montejo. The works by these writers offer evidence that most native people have entered modernity without renouncing their respective cultures or the specifics of their singular identities. The philosophical ethics elaborated in the texts, such as respect for nature and recognition of the holistic value of natural beings, enable non-Indigenous readers to both understand and relate to these values.

Contents:

A brief history of Guatemalan Maya literature's emergence

Luis de Lión: the tragic pioneer

Gaspar Pedro González, a Maya "best seller"

Víctor Montejo: the framer of a new imaginary.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781438467412

1438467419