The Serpent's Plumes (eBook)

Contemporary Nahua Flowered Words in Movement

Adam W. Coon (Autor)

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2024
358 Seiten
State University of New York Press (Verlag)
978-1-4384-9779-2 (ISBN)

Infos

The Serpent's Plumes analyzes contemporary Nahua cultural production, principally bilingual Nahuatl-Spanish xochitlajtoli, or "e;poetry,"e; 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 ("e;knowledge with the face,"e; which highlights the value of personal experiences); yoltlajlamikilistli ("e;knowledge with the heart,"e; which underscores the importance of affective intelligence); and tlaixpan ("e;that which is in front,"e; 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.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.5.2024
• Reihe/Serie: SUNY series, Trans-Indigenous Decolonial Critiques
• Reihe/Serie: SUNY series, Trans-Indigenous Decolonial Critiques
• Zusatzinfo: Total Illustrations: 8
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Essays / Feuilleton
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
• ISBN-10: 1-4384-9779-2 / 1438497792
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4384-9779-2 / 9781438497792