Unwriting Maya Literature - Ts'íib as Recorded Knowledge

Places contemporary Maya literatures within a context that is situated in Indigenous ways of knowing and being. Through ts'íib, the authors propose an alternative to traditional analysis of Maya cultural production that allows critics, students, and admirers to respectfully interact with the texts and their authors.

About the author

Paul M. Worley is an associate professor of global literature at Western Carolina University. He is the author of Telling and Being Told: Storytelling and Cultural Control in Contemporary Yucatec Maya Literatures.

Rita M. Palacios is a professor of liberal studies at Conestoga College Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning in Kitchener, Ontario, Canada.

Product details

• Authors: Rita M Palacios, Rita M. Palacios, Paul M Worley, Paul M. Worley
• Publisher: The University of Arizona Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.05.2019
• EAN: 9780816534272
• ISBN: 978-0-8165-3427-2
• No. of pages: 248
• Dimensions: 157 mm x 231 mm x 23 mm
• Weight: 476 g
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Romance linguistics / literary studies