Recovering Lost Footprints, Volume 1

Recovering Lost Footprints, Volume 1
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Publisher : State University of New York Press
Total Pages : 296
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ISBN-10 : 9781438467412
ISBN-13 : 1438467419
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Book Synopsis Recovering Lost Footprints, Volume 1 by : Arturo Arias

Download or read book Recovering Lost Footprints, Volume 1 written by Arturo Arias and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2017-09-14 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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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