Storytelling and Cultural Control in Contemporary Yucatec Maya Literatures
by
Paul M. Worley
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2013
Through performance and the spoken word, Yucatec Maya storytellers have maintained the vitality of their literary traditions for more than five hundred years. Telling and Being Told presents the figure of the storyteller as a symbol of indigenous cultural control in contemporary Yucatec Maya literatures....