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Record Nr.

UNINA9910809055503321

Autore

Worley Paul M. <1976->

Titolo

Telling and being told : storytelling and cultural control in contemporary Yucatec Maya literatures / / Paul M. Worley

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Tucson, : University of Arizona Press, 2013

ISBN

0-8165-9909-2

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (216 p.)

Disciplina

897/.42709

Soggetti

Maya literature - History and criticism

Storytelling - Mexico - Yucatan (State)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Intro -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Who Tells What to Whom and How: Orality, Literacy, and Cultural Control -- 2. Writing THE Word: Storytellers, Cultural Brokers, and the Shape of Indigenous Memory -- 3. Into the Archive: Cultural Brokers, Cultural Control, and WritingOral Maya Literature in the Twentieth Century -- 4. "I'll tell you the story . . ." : Mariano Bonilla Caamal and Storytelling as Cultural Control -- 5. Telling Maya Modernity: The Works of María Luisa Góngora Pacheco, Ana Patricia Martínez Huchim, and Briceida Cuevas Cob -- Appendix 1: "The Dwarf of Uxmal" as told by Luis Gonzaga (José May) -- Appendix 2: "The Dwarf of Uxmal" as told by Humberto Bonilla Caamal -- Appendix 3: "The Story of Juan Rabbit" as told by Mariano Bonilla Caamal -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index.