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Maya poetry --- Maya literature --- Belizean literature --- History and criticism.

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Recovering Lost Footprints is the first full-length critical study to analyze Latin American Indigenous literary narratives in a systematic manner. In the book, Arturo Arias looks at Maya narratives in Guatemala. The study of these works is intended to spark changes so that constitutions recognize these cultures, their rights, their languages, their centers of worship, and their cosmologies. Through this study, Arias problematizes the partial or full omission of Latin America's original inhabitants from recognized citizenry. This book analyzes these elements of exclusion in the novelistic output of three salient figures, Luis de Lión, Gaspar Pedro González, and Víctor Montejo. The works by these writers offer evidence that most native people have entered modernity without renouncing their respective cultures or the specifics of their singular identities. The philosophical ethics elaborated in the texts, such as respect for nature and recognition of the holistic value of natural beings, enable non-Indigenous readers to both understand and relate to these values.

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Indians of Mexico --- Maya literature --- Mayas --- Folklore. --- Translations into English.

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Maya language --- Maya literature --- Bibliography --- Grammar --- History and criticism

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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