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Mesoamerican Voices, first published in 2006, presents a collection of indigenous-language writings from the colonial period, translated into English. The texts were written from the sixteenth through the eighteenth centuries by Nahuas from central Mexico, Mixtecs from Oaxaca, Maya from Yucatan, and other groups from Mexico and Guatemala. The volume gives college teachers and students access to important new sources for the history of Latin America and Native Americans. It is the first collection to present the translated writings of so many native groups and to address such a variety of topics, including conquest, government, land, household, society, gender, religion, writing, law, crime, and morality.
Indian literature --- Nahuatl literature. --- Maya literature. --- Nahuatl literature --- Maya literature --- Languages & Literatures --- Native American & Hyperborean Languages --- Belizean literature --- Aztec literature --- Mexican literature (Nahuatl) --- Indian literature (American Indian) --- Literature --- History and criticism. --- History and criticism --- Indian authors
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This challenging new book looks at the current reinvention of American Studies: a reinvention that, among other things, has put the whole issue of just what is 'American' and what is 'American Studies' into contention. The collection focuses, in particular, on American mythology. The editors themselves have written essays that examine the connections between mythologies of the United States and those of either classical European or Native American traditions. William Blazek considers Louise Erdrich's Love Medicine novels as chronicles combining Ojibwa mythology and contemporary U.S. culture in ways that reinvest a sense of mythic identity within a multicultural, postmodern America. Michael K Glenday's analysis of Jayne Anne Phillips' work and explores in it the contexts where myth and dream interact with each other. Betty Louise Bell is one of four essayists in this collection who focus their criticism on authors of Native American heritage. In the first part of 'Indians with Voices', Bell carefully argues that Roy Harvey Pearce's seminal Native American studies text Savagism and Civilization fails to acknowledge its white elitist assumptions about what constitutes The American Mind and views Native Americans along a primitive-savage binary that helped to create a twentieth-century 'national mythos of innocence and destiny'. Other essays include Christopher Brookeman's study of the impact of Muhammad Ali on Norman Mailer's non-fiction writing about heavyweight boxing.
American literature --- anno 1900-1999 --- anno 2000-2009 --- American literature. --- Indian mythology in literature. --- Race in literature. --- History and criticism. --- Indian authors. --- Indian literature (American)
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Explores the founding discourses of race, hybridity, savagery, and degenercy in the seventeenth and eighteenth century French Caribbean, in particular the way many of these discourses were used to describe French settlers.
Creoles --- Slavery --- Libertinism --- Culture diffusion --- Acculturation --- Intercultural communication --- West Indian literature (French) --- History. --- History and criticism. --- West Indies, French --- Race relations --- Ethnic relations --- Social conditions.
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As part of the larger, ongoing movement throughout Latin America to reclaim non-Hispanic cultural heritages and identities, indigenous writers in Mexico are reappropriating the written word in their ancestral tongues and in Spanish. As a result, the long-marginalized, innermost feelings, needs, and worldviews of Mexico's ten to twenty million indigenous peoples are now being widely revealed to the Western societies with which these peoples coexist. To contribute to this process and serve as a bridge of intercultural communication and understanding, this groundbreaking, three-volume anthology gathers works by the leading generation of writers in thirteen Mexican indigenous languages: Nahuatl, Maya, Tzotzil, Tzeltal, Tojolabal, Tabasco Chontal, Purepecha, Sierra Zapoteco, Isthmus Zapoteco, Mazateco, Ñahñu, Totonaco, and Huichol. Volume Two contains poetry by Mexican indigenous writers. Their poems appear first in their native language, followed by English and Spanish translations. Montemayor and Frischmann have abundantly annotated the Spanish, English, and indigenous-language texts and added glossaries and essays that discuss the formal and linguistic qualities of the poems, as well as their place within contemporary poetry. These supporting materials make the anthology especially accessible and interesting for nonspecialist readers seeking a greater understanding of Mexico's indigenous peoples.
Indian literature --- Indians of Mexico --- Maya literature --- Mexican literature --- History and criticism. --- Languages --- Belizean literature --- Indians of North America --- Indigenous peoples --- Meso-America --- Meso-American Indians --- Mesoamerica --- Mesoamerican Indians --- Pre-Columbian Indians --- Precolumbian Indians --- Ethnology --- Indian literature (American Indian) --- Literature --- Indian authors
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West Indian literature --- Culture in literature. --- Gender identity in literature. --- Masculinity in literature. --- Masculinity (Psychology) in literature --- Caribbean literature --- History and criticism. --- Selvon, Samuel --- Lamming, George, --- Selvon, Sam --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Postcolonialisme --- IDENTITE SEXUELLE --- DIFFERENCES ENTRE SEXES (PSYCHOLOGIE) DANS LA LITTERATURE --- LITTERATURE DE L'INDE DE LANGUE ANGLAISE --- LITTERATURE ANTILLAISE = CARIBBEAN LITERATURE --- HISTOIRE ET CRITIQUE
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What are the perceived differences among African Americans, West Indians, and Afro Latin Americans? What are the hierarchies implicit in those perceptions, and when and how did these develop? For Ifeoma Kiddoe Nwankwo the turning point came in the wake of the Haitian Revolution of 1804. The uprising was significant because it not only brought into being the first Black republic in the Americas but also encouraged new visions of the interrelatedness of peoples of the African Diaspora. Black Cosmopolitanism looks to the aftermath of this historical moment to examine the disparities and similarities between the approaches to identity articulated by people of African descent in the United States, Cuba, and the British West Indies during the nineteenth century.In Black Cosmopolitanism, Nwankwo contends that whites' fears of the Haitian Revolution and its potentially contagious nature virtually forced people of African descent throughout the Americas who were in the public eye to articulate their stance toward the event. While some U.S. writers, like William Wells Brown, chose not to mention the existence of people of African heritage in other countries, others, like David Walker, embraced the Haitian Revolution and the message that it sent. Particularly in print, people of African descent had to decide where to position themselves and whether to emphasize their national or cosmopolitan, transnational identities.Through readings of slave narratives, fiction, poetry, nonfiction, newspaper editorials, and government documents that include texts by Frederick Douglass, the freed West Indian slave Mary Prince, and the Cuban poets Plácido and Juan Francisco Manzano, Nwankwo explicates this growing self-consciousness about publicly engaging other peoples of African descent. Ultimately, she contends, these writers configured their identities specifically to counter not only the Atlantic power structure's negation of their potential for transnational identity but also its simultaneous denial of their humanity and worthiness for national citizenship.
African Americans --- American literature --- Blacks --- Cosmopolitanism --- Ethnicity in literature --- Race awareness in literature --- Transnationalism --- West Indian literature --- Negroes --- Ethnology --- Caribbean literature --- Trans-nationalism --- Transnational migration --- International relations --- Political science --- Internationalism --- English literature --- Agrarians (Group of writers) --- Negritude --- African American intellectuals --- Intellectual life --- Race identity --- African American authors&delete& --- History and criticism --- Ethnic identity --- Black persons --- African American authors --- Black people --- Cosmopolitanism. --- Transnationalism. --- Race identity. --- Intellectual life. --- African Studies. --- African-American Studies. --- American History. --- American Studies. --- Cultural Studies. --- Literature.
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Acculturation --- Creoles --- Culture diffusion --- Intercultural communication --- Libertinism --- Slavery --- West Indian literature (French) --- 804.0 <100> --- 840 <100> --- 972.9 --- 972.9 Geschiedenis van de Caraïben, West-Indië, Antillen --- Geschiedenis van de Caraïben, West-Indië, Antillen --- 840 <100> Franse literatuur: extra muros --- Franse literatuur: extra muros --- 804.0 <100> Francofonie --- Francofonie --- French literature --- West Indian literature --- Abolition of slavery --- Antislavery --- Enslavement --- Mui tsai --- Ownership of slaves --- Servitude --- Slave keeping --- Slave system --- Slaveholding --- Thralldom --- Crimes against humanity --- Serfdom --- Slaveholders --- Slaves --- Libertinage --- Cross-cultural communication --- Communication --- Culture --- Cross-cultural orientation --- Cultural competence --- Multilingual communication --- Technical assistance --- Cultural diffusion --- Diffusion of culture --- Social change --- Racially mixed people --- Culture contact --- Development education --- Civilization --- Ethnology --- Assimilation (Sociology) --- Cultural fusion --- History --- History and criticism --- West Indian authors --- Anthropological aspects --- West Indies, French --- Antilles, French --- Antilles françaises --- French Antilles --- French West Indies --- Antilles, Lesser --- Ethnic relations --- History. --- Race relations --- Social conditions --- French literature (outside France) --- History of Latin America --- anno 1600-1699 --- anno 1700-1799 --- Caribbean area --- Culture contact (Acculturation) --- Enslaved persons
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