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"This book is a series of original, critical meditations on short stories and novels from Central America between 1995 and 2016. During the Cold War, literary art in Central America, as in Latin America in general, was strongly over-determined by the politics of the Cold War, which gave rise to popular struggle and three major armed civil wars in the 1970s and 1980s in Nicaragua, El Salvador and Guatemala. The period produced intense literary activity with political ideology central, personified by social denunciation in the testimonial novel and revolutionary poetry. Since then, though themes of violence are still at much of its core, Central American fiction has become more complex. We have witnessed a resurgence of literary writing and criticism with a focus squarely on the artistic side of narrative art: writing aware of its own figurative manoeuvres and inventiveness, its philosophical and affective dimensions, and its carefully crafted syntax. This collection of essays by Jeffrey Browitt attempts to trace some of the contours of this new literature and the contemporary subjectivities of its writers through close readings of Guatemala's Rodrigo Rey Rosa, Eduardo Halfon and Denise Phé-Funchal; Nicaragua's Franz Galich and Sergio Ramírez; Belize's David Ruiz Puga; El Salvador's Jacinta Escudos and Claudia Hernández; and Costa Rica's Carlos Cortés. Key themes are gender, subjectivity and affect as these intersect with the deconstruction of the family, hegemonic masculinity, motherhood, revolutionary romanticism, and the relationship of humans with animals" --

Central American fiction --- Families in literature. --- Family in literature --- Central American literature --- History and criticism.

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Often treated like night itself-both visible and invisible, feared and romanticized-Latina/os make up the largest minority group in the US. In her newest work, María DeGuzmán explores representations of night in art and literature from the Caribbean, Colombia, Central and South America, and the US, calling into question night's effect on the formation of identity for Latina/os in and outside of the US. She takes as her subject novels, short stories, poetry, essays, non-fiction, photo-fictions, photography, and film, and examines these texts through the lenses of nationhood, sexuality, human

Night in art. --- Central American literature --- Night in literature. --- American literature --- History and criticism. --- Hispanic American authors --- South America --- Literatures --- Latin American literature

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"... focusing on work produced in the late twentieth and twenty-first centuries, Chacón looks at the growing number of contemporary Indigenous writers who are reclaiming Maya and Zapotec languages alongside Spanish translations of their work, challenging monolingualism, and reconstructing an Indigenous literary tradition"--

Central American literature --- Mexican literature --- Zapotec literature --- Maya literature --- Belizean literature --- Contemporáneos (Group of writers) --- Indian authors --- History and criticism.

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In The Olson Codex, Tedlock describes and examines Olson's efforts to decipher Mayan hieroglyphics, giving Olson's work in Mexico the place it deserves within twentieth-century poetry and poetics.

Poetics. --- Mayan poetry. --- Mayan literature. --- Mayan languages --- Mayan languages. --- Mayan literature --- Mayan poetry --- Central American literature --- Poetry --- Penutian languages --- Alphabet. --- History and criticism. --- Texts. --- Technique --- Olson, Charles, --- Criticism and interpretation.

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Mayan literature is among the oldest in the world, spanning an astonishing two millennia from deep pre-Columbian antiquity to the present day. Here, for the first time, is a fully illustrated survey, from the earliest hieroglyphic inscriptions to the works of later writers using the Roman alphabet. Dennis Tedlock-ethnographer, linguist, poet, and award-winning author-draws on decades of living and working among the Maya to assemble this groundbreaking book, which is the first to treat ancient Mayan texts as literature. Tedlock considers the texts chronologically. He establishes that women were among the ancient writers and challenges the idea that Mayan rulers claimed the status of gods. 2000 Years of Mayan Literature expands our understanding and appreciation not only of Mayan literature but of indigenous American literature in its entirety.

Mayan literature --- Languages & Literatures --- Native American & Hyperborean Languages --- Central American literature --- History and criticism --- History and criticism. --- ancient literature. --- ancient mayan texts. --- anthropology. --- chilam balam. --- colonial latin america. --- early mayan writing. --- ethnography. --- graffiti. --- hieroglyphic inscriptions. --- history. --- indigenous american literature. --- indigenous peoples. --- lady shark fin. --- language of suyua. --- linguistics. --- literary. --- maya. --- mayan literature. --- moon woman. --- native americans. --- poetry. --- pre colombian antiquity. --- rattlesnakes of the city of three stones. --- roman alphabet. --- temple of the sun eyed shield. --- temple of the tree of yellow corn. --- thunderstorm. --- women writers.