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From the dramatization of local legends to the staging of plays by Shakespeare and other canonical playwrights to the exploration of contemporary sociopolitical problems and their effects on women and children, Mayan theatre is a flourishing cultural institution in southern Mexico. Part of a larger movement to define Mayan self-identity and reclaim a Mayan cultural heritage, theatre in Mayan languages has both reflected on and contributed to a growing awareness of Mayans as contemporary cultural and political players in Mexico and on the world's stage. In this book, Tamara Underiner draws on fieldwork with theatre groups in Chiapas, Tabasco, and Yucatán to observe the Maya peoples in the process of defining themselves through theatrical performance. She looks at the activities of four theatre groups or networks, focusing on their operating strategies and on close analyses of selected dramatic texts. She shows that while each group works under the rubric of Mayan or indigenous theatre, their works are also in constant dialogue, confrontation, and collaboration with the wider, non-Mayan world. Her observations thus reveal not only how theatre is an agent of cultural self-definition and community-building but also how theatre negotiates complex relations among indigenous communities in Mayan Mexico, state governments, and non-Mayan artists and researchers.

Theater --- Mayan drama --- History --- History and criticism. --- Mayan literature --- Dramatics --- Histrionics --- Professional theater --- Stage --- Theatre --- Performing arts --- Acting --- Actors

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literature [writings] --- Literature --- Central America --- Mexico --- Indian literature --- Maya literature --- Littérature indienne d'Amérique --- Littérature maya --- History and criticism --- Histoire et critique --- Mayan literature --- History and criticism. --- Littérature indienne d'Amérique --- Littérature maya --- literature [documents]

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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.