Libros de Carlos Montemayor (3 libros)

This 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 1 contains narratives and essays by Mexican indigenous writers. Their texts appear first in their native language, followed by English and Spanish translations.

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 anthology—to be...

Edición multilingüe que ofrece versiones al español de obras escritas originalmente en diez lenguas indígenas: maya, tzeltal, tzotzil, tojolabal, náhuatl, zapoteco del Istmo, zapoteco de la Sierra, mazateco, huichol y ñahñu. El volumen incluye comentarios sobre las lenguas traducidas e información sobre los autores. Son treinta y dos escritores que tienen años de oficio y cuentan con una producción reconocida en los géneros que cultivan: narrativa, poesía, ensayo y teatro. Los autores tienen una larga trayectoria, ya sea en literatura o en investigación lingüística e...