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Ament, Gail Roberta.

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The postcolonial Mayan scribe: Contemporary indigenous writers of Guatemala.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	The postcolonial Mayan scribe: Contemporary indigenous writers of Guatemala./
Author:	Ament, Gail Roberta.
Description:	246 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 59-09, Section: A, page: 3476.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International59-09A.
Subject:	Literature, Latin American. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=9907873
ISBN:	9780599057098

The postcolonial Mayan scribe: Contemporary indigenous writers of Guatemala.
Ament, Gail Roberta.

The postcolonial Mayan scribe: Contemporary indigenous writers of Guatemala. - 246 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 59-09, Section: A, page: 3476.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Washington, 1998.

This dissertation deals with poetry, narrative, and testimonial works produced in Spanish by Mayan writers of Guatemala since the late 1960s. I consider the contemporary Mayan creative writer in relation to Mayan cultural activists and subaltern indigenous linguists, to consider how their discourses reinforce or contradict each other in the effort to decolonize scholarship and culture.

ISBN: 9780599057098Subjects--Topical Terms:

1024734
Literature, Latin American.

The postcolonial Mayan scribe: Contemporary indigenous writers of Guatemala.
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520 $a This dissertation deals with poetry, narrative, and testimonial works produced in Spanish by Mayan writers of Guatemala since the late 1960s. I consider the contemporary Mayan creative writer in relation to Mayan cultural activists and subaltern indigenous linguists, to consider how their discourses reinforce or contradict each other in the effort to decolonize scholarship and culture.
520 $a In Chapter One, I lay the parameters of my study and discuss the new writers' relation to the canon of ancient Mayan writing, to twentieth-century indigenista literature, to the rich oral tradition, and to linguistic complexities in this country where the official language, Spanish, reigns over the Mayan languages spoken by the illiterate majority. In Chapter Two, I trace the general outlines of Mayan writing and literacy in ancient, pre-Columbian, and early colonial times. After discussing the factors that effectively muffled the Mayan people during the colonial and Independence periods, I consider events, from the 1944-1954 Revolution onwards, that contributed to the formation of an educated, bilingual indigenous elite capable of highly articulate cultural defense, provoked, in large part, by the brutal ethnocidal war of counterinsurgency. Chapter Three deals with "Mayanism" in the areas of hieroglyphic epigraphy and Mayan linguistics, and the efforts of subaltern linguists to gain control of research agendas in these disciplines, in order to combat enduring colonial attitudes among the hegemonic ladino population.
520 $a Chapters Four, Five, and Six deal with major Mayan writers and the texts they have produced in recent decades. First, I discuss Luis de Lion and Luis Enrique Sam Colop as "foundational writers," fully functional within ladino literary circles in Guatemala City. Second, I deal primarily with two writers and testimonialists of the diaspora, Victor Montejo and Rigoberta Menchu, whose extended periods of exile during the counterinsurgency war profoundly affected their lives and their work. Finally, the poet Humberto Ak'abal and the novelist Gaspar Pedro Gonzalez, both of whom published their first works on the eve of the Quincentennial, bring the literary expression of Mayan aesthetics and cultural concerns to an ever-broadening readership in the 1990s.
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