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

• Autore: Worley Paul M. <1976->
• Pubblicazione: Tucson, : University of Arizona Press, 2013
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (216 p.)
• Disciplina: 897/.42709
• Soggetto topico: Maya literature - History and criticism; Storytelling - Mexico - Yucatan (State)
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Telling and being told
• ISBN: 0-8165-9909-2
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910961322903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II