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Informationen zum Autor Paul Worley is an assistant professor of Spanish in the Department of Modern and Classical Languages and Literatures at the University of North Dakota. His work has appeared in Chasqui and in the volume Resistant Strategies . Stories collected as part of his research are available at the website tsikbalichmaya.org. Klappentext 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. Analysing the storyteller as the embodiment of indigenous knowledge, this book highlights how Yucatec Maya literatures play a vital role in imaginings of Maya culture and its relationships with Mexican and global cultures. Zusammenfassung Oral literature has been excluded from the analysis of Yucatec Maya literature! but it is a key component and a vital force in the cultural communities and their contemporary writing. Telling and Being Told shows the vital role Yucatec storytelling claims in Mayan ways of knowing and in the Mexican literary canon.
