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The Serpent's Plumes: Contemporary Nahua Flowered Words in Movement

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Availability:In StockContributor:Adam W. CoonSeries:Suny Series, Trans-Indigenous Decolonial CritiquesPublish date:2024-05-01Pages:358
Language:EnglishPublisher:State University of New York PressISBN-13:9781438497778ISBN-10:1438497776UPC:9781438497778Book Category:Literary CriticismBook Subcategory:Indigenous, Caribbean & Latin American, ModernBook Topic:21st CenturySize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.81 inchesWeight:1.4308Product ID:SC6S1CVA97
The Serpent's Plumes analyzes contemporary Nahua cultural production, principally bilingual Nahuatl-Spanish xochitlajtoli, or "poetry," written from the 1980s to the present. Adam W. Coon draws on Nahua perspectives as a decolonizing theoretical framework to argue that Nahua writers deploy unique worldviews--namely, ixtlamatilistli ("knowledge with the face," which highlights the value of personal experiences); yoltlajlamikilistli ("knowledge with the heart," which underscores the importance of affective intelligence); and tlaixpan ("that which is in front," which presents the past as lying ahead of a subject rather than behind). The views of ixtlamatilistli, yoltlajlamikilistli, and tlaixpan are key in Nahua struggles and effectively challenge those who attempt to marginalize Native knowledge production.
Language:EnglishPublisher:State University of New York PressISBN-13:9781438497778ISBN-10:1438497776UPC:9781438497778Book Category:Literary CriticismBook Subcategory:Indigenous, Caribbean & Latin American, ModernBook Topic:21st CenturySize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.81 inchesWeight:1.4308Product ID:SC6S1CVA97
Adam W. Coon is Associate Professor of Latin American Studies and Spanish at the University of Minnesota Morris.
Publisher: State University of New York Press

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