Introduction: this is a work on Maya ts'iib, not Maya literature -- 1. Maya ts'iib and legacies of performing reading and writing -- 2. Multiple literacies, multiple worlds: Maya textiles as ts'iib -- 3. My words are weaving: unraveling the distance between text and textile in the work of Calixta Gabriel Xiquin and Ruperta Bautista Vazquez -- 4. Ts'iib and a poetics of gender in the work of Humberto Ak'abal and Rosa Chavez -- 5. Performing Maya literary histories: cha'anil, pan-Maya aesthetics, and the books of the Chilam Balam -- 6. My word is my rebellion: Waldemar Noh Tzec, k'anel, and the refusals of translation -- 7. A politics of creation: ts'iib, material culture, and the artisan/artist -- Conclusions.
Summary:
"This volume provides a decolonial framework for reading Maya and Indigenous texts"--Provided by publisher.
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.