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Record Nr.

UNINA9910961322903321

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.

Sommario/riassunto

Through performance and the spoken word, Yucatec Maya storytellers have maintained the vitality of their literary traditions for more than five hundred years.Telling and Being Told presents the figure of the storyteller as a symbol of indigenous cultural control in contemporary Yucatec Maya literatures.