Words of the True Peoples/Palabras de Los Seres Verdaderos: Anthology of Contemporary Mexican Indigenous-Language Writers/Antología de Escritores Actu (Joe R. and Teresa Lozana Long Series in Latin American and Latino Art and Culture) (Hardcover)

Words of the True Peoples/Palabras de Los Seres Verdaderos: Anthology of Contemporary Mexican Indigenous-Language Writers/Antología de Escritores Actu (Joe R. and Teresa Lozana Long Series in Latin American and Latino Art and Culture) By Carlos Montemayor (Editor), Donald Frischmann (Editor) Cover Image

Words of the True Peoples/Palabras de Los Seres Verdaderos: Anthology of Contemporary Mexican Indigenous-Language Writers/Antología de Escritores Actu (Joe R. and Teresa Lozana Long Series in Latin American and Latino Art and Culture) (Hardcover)

By Carlos Montemayor (Editor), Donald Frischmann (Editor)

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As part of the larger, ongoing movement throughout Latin America to reclaim non-Hispanic cultural heritages and identities, indigenous writers in Mexico are reappropriating the written word in their ancestral tongues and in Spanish. As a result, the long-marginalized, innermost feelings, needs, and worldviews of Mexico's ten to twenty million indigenous peoples are now being widely revealed to the Western societies with which these peoples coexist. To contribute to this process and serve as a bridge of intercultural communication and understanding, this groundbreaking, three-volume anthology gathers works by the leading generation of writers in thirteen Mexican indigenous languages: Nahuatl, Maya, Tzotzil, Tzeltal, Tojolabal, Tabasco Chontal, Purepecha, Sierra Zapoteco, Isthmus Zapoteco, Mazateco, Nahnu, Totonaco, and Huichol.

Volume Three contains plays by six Mexican indigenous writers. Their plays appear first in their native language, followed by English and Spanish translations. Montemayor and Frischmann have abundantly annotated the Spanish, English, and indigenous-language texts and added glossaries and essays that introduce the work of each playwright and discuss the role of theater within indigenous communities. These supporting materials make the anthology especially accessible and interesting for nonspecialist readers seeking a greater understanding of Mexico's indigenous peoples.


Product Details ISBN: 9780292709560
ISBN-10: 0292709560
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Publication Date: May 1st, 2007
Pages: 290
Language: Spanish
Series: Joe R. and Teresa Lozana Long Series in Latin American and Latino Art and Culture (Hardcover)