Book contents
- The Cambridge History of Latin American Women’s Literature
- The Cambridge History of Latin American Women’s Literature
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Notes on Contributors
- Book part
- Introduction
- Part I Women in Ancient America: The Indigenous World
- Part II Women Writers in Creole Societies: Nation Building Projects
- Part III Women Writers In-Between: Socialist, Modern, Developmentalists, and Liberal Democratic Ideals
- 12 Women Writers in the Revolution
- 13 Revolutionary Insurgencies, Paradigmatic Cases
- 14 The Women of the Avant-Gardes
- 15 Dissident Cosmopolitanisms
- 16 Boom,Realismo Mágico– Boom andBoomito
- 17 Poetry-Fugue
- 18 Mexican Migrations
- 19 Displaced Selves
- 20 The View from Here
- 21 Women Writing in the Andes
- 22 Rebellion, Revision, and Renewal
- 23 Central American Women’s Literature
- 24 Writing Violence
- 25 New/Old Indigenous Paradigms in Maya Women’s Literary Production
- 26 Genres of the Real
- 27 Performances
- 28 Mothers and Children in Biopolitical Networks
- Part IV Women Writers in a One–World Global System: Neoliberalism, Sexuality, Subjectivity
- Bibliography
- Index
- References
25 - New/Old Indigenous Paradigms in Maya Women’s Literary Production
from Part III - Women Writers In-Between: Socialist, Modern, Developmentalists, and Liberal Democratic Ideals
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 November 2015
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Book contents
- The Cambridge History of Latin American Women’s Literature
- The Cambridge History of Latin American Women’s Literature
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Notes on Contributors
- Book part
- Introduction
- Part I Women in Ancient America: The Indigenous World
- Part II Women Writers in Creole Societies: Nation Building Projects
- Part III Women Writers In-Between: Socialist, Modern, Developmentalists, and Liberal Democratic Ideals
- 12 Women Writers in the Revolution
- 13 Revolutionary Insurgencies, Paradigmatic Cases
- 14 The Women of the Avant-Gardes
- 15 Dissident Cosmopolitanisms
- 16 Boom,Realismo Mágico– Boom andBoomito
- 17 Poetry-Fugue
- 18 Mexican Migrations
- 19 Displaced Selves
- 20 The View from Here
- 21 Women Writing in the Andes
- 22 Rebellion, Revision, and Renewal
- 23 Central American Women’s Literature
- 24 Writing Violence
- 25 New/Old Indigenous Paradigms in Maya Women’s Literary Production
- 26 Genres of the Real
- 27 Performances
- 28 Mothers and Children in Biopolitical Networks
- Part IV Women Writers in a One–World Global System: Neoliberalism, Sexuality, Subjectivity
- Bibliography
- Index
- References
Summary
Contemporary Maya indigenous literature came into existence before one even knew it as Maya, or literature for that matter - long before it was written in a Maya language, certainly before Maya women writers appeared. Guatemalan Mayas contemporary identity can be traced to the Popol Wuj, the heart of the Mesoamerican cultural matrix. The Popol Wuj creates an alternative macronarrative to the Western Bible. It tells the story of creation in a fashion that conflates the origins of all Mesoamerican peoples in one foundational discourse. The Guatemalan thirty-seven-year civil war is dated from November 13, 1960, until peace was signed on December 28, 1996. It was mostly in the latter part of the conflict that a spontaneous insurrection in the Maya highlands took place, from 1979 to 1982. Starting in 1985, the well-known Maya public intellectual Demetrio Cojti Cuxil began to publish articles on the need to expand the use of Maya languages.
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- The Cambridge History of Latin American Women's Literature , pp. 418 - 432Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2015
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