Words of the True Peoples/Palabras de los Seres Verdaderos : : Anthology of Contemporary Mexican Indigenous-Language Writers/Antología de Escritores Actuales en Lenguas Indígenas de México: Volume Two/Tomo Dos: Poetry/Poesía / / ed. by Carlos Montemayor, Donald Frischmann.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Texas Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Frischmann, Donald,; Montemayor, Carlos,
• HerausgeberIn: Frischmann, Donald,; Montemayor, Carlos,
• TeilnehmendeR: Jackson, George O.
• Place / Publishing House: Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021]; ©2005
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Series: Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long Series in Latin American and Latino Art and Culture
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (295 p.)

As part of the larger, ongoing movement throughout Latin America to reclaim non-Hispanic cultural heritages and identities, indigenous writers in Mexico are reappropriating the written word in their ancestral tongues and in Spanish. As a result, the long-marginalized, innermost feelings, needs, and worldviews of Mexico's ten to twenty million indigenous peoples are now being widely revealed to the Western societies with which these peoples coexist. To contribute to this process and serve as a bridge of intercultural communication and understanding, this groundbreaking, three-volume anthology gathers works by the leading generation of writers in thirteen Mexican indigenous languages: Nahuatl, Maya, Tzotzil, Tzeltal, Tojolabal, Tabasco Chontal, Purepecha, Sierra Zapoteco, Isthmus Zapoteco, Mazateco, Ñahñu, Totonaco, and Huichol. Volume Two contains poetry by Mexican indigenous writers. Their poems appear first in their native language, followed by English and Spanish translations. Montemayor and Frischmann have abundantly annotated the Spanish, English, and indigenous-language texts and added glossaries and essays that discuss the formal and linguistic qualities of the poems, as well as their place within contemporary poetry. These supporting materials make the anthology especially accessible and interesting for nonspecialist readers seeking a greater understanding of Mexico's indigenous peoples.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents/Contenido -- Acknowledgments/Agradecimientos -- Abbreviations/Abreviaturas -- Regarding the Indigenous Languages and Alphabets in This Volume/ Acerca de los idiomas y alfabetos indígenas de este volumen -- Poetry in Mexican Indigenous Languages -- La poesía en lenguas indígenas de México -- Spirit-Matter-Word Contemporary Mexican Indigenous Poetry -- Espíritu-Materia-Palabra Poesía indígena contemporánea de México -- Victor de la Cruz Isthmus Zapotec/zapoteco del Istmo -- Victor Terán Isthmus Zapotec/zapoteco del Istmo -- Natalia Toledo Paz Isthmus Zapotec/zapoteco del Istmo -- Mario Molina Cruz Sierra Zapotec/zapoteco de la Sierra -- Juan Gregorio Regino Mazatec/mazateco -- Heriberto Prado Pereda Mazatec/mazateco -- Natalio Hernández Nahuatl/náhuatl -- Serafín Thaayrohyadi Bermúdez Ñähñu/ñähñu -- Briceida Cuevas Cob Mayan/maya -- Gerardo Can Pat Mayan/maya -- Alberto Gómez Pérez Tzotzil/tzotzil -- Jun Tiburcio Totonac/totonaco -- Appendices/Apéndice -- Appendix A. The Owners, Lords, or Guardians of the Earth and theWater / Apéndice A. Los Dueños, Señores o Guardianes de la tierra y el agua -- Appendix B. Hurricane and Lightning Entities / Apéndice B. Entidades del huracán y del rayo -- Appendix C. Traditional Prayers and Healing Ceremonies / Apéndice C. Rezos tradicionales y ceremonias de curaciónTT -- English Glossary -- Glosario español -- Sources of the Poems/Fuentes de los poemas