1st Edition
Writing the Land, Writing Humanity The Maya Literary Renaissance
Prologue
Chapter One: Literary Inhabitation
Part One: Lu’um: Writing the Land
Chapter Two: My Land
Chapter Three: Memories from the Heart of the Forest
Chapter Four: They Sing
Chapter Five: A Dog’s Lament of a Dog’s Life
Part Two: Wíinik: Writing Humanity
Chapter Six: Primordial Fire
Chapter Seven: Tales of Old Mother Corn
Chapter Eight: The Suffering of My Village and Women of Today
Chapter Nine: Grandfather Gregorio: A Maya Sage
Epilogue: Towards an Intercultural and Translingual Ecocriticism
Biography
Charles M. Pigott is an Assistant Professor of Literature at UDLAP and Quondam Fellow of Hughes Hall (Cambridge). His other publications include "Maize and Semiotic Emergence in a Contemporary Maya Tale" (Tapuya), "The Last Inca: Hegemony and Abjection in an Andean Poetics of Discrimination" (Modern Languages Open) and "Ecological Ethics in Andean Songs" (Studies in American Indian Literatures).
"An original, compelling intervention into how scholars and critics understand Indigenous Literatures, their world-building capacities, and relationships with the environment, Pigott’s book is a must read for those interested in the importance of Yucatec Maya language and literature".
Paul M Worley, Western Carolina University
"This book seeks to introduce non-Maya readers to a large body of literature that has gone relatively unnoticed. Pigott is uniquely positioned to carry out this work, as a skilled linguist with an impressive knowledge of both the Yucatec language and cultural context. This volume is a monumental achievement in literary analysis."
Allen J Christenson, Brigham Young University
