Le Maya Q'atzij / Our Maya Word: Poetics of Resistance in Guatemala by Emil' Keme

Le Maya Q'atzij / Our Maya Word: Poetics of Resistance in Guatemala by Emil' Keme

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Bringing to the fore the voices of Maya authors and what their poetry tells us about resistance, sovereignty, trauma, and regeneration

This innovative work employs Indigenous and decolonial theoretical frameworks to critically analyze poetic works written by ten contemporary Maya writers from five different Maya nations in Iximulew/Guatemala. It shows how Indigenous Maya poetics carries out various processes of decolonization and, especially, how Maya literature offers diverse and heterogeneous perspectives about what it means to be Maya in the contemporary world.