Adam W. Coon

The Serpent's Plumes (eBook, ePUB)

Contemporary Nahua Flowered Words in Movement

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: State University of New York Press
• Seitenzahl: 358
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Mai 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781438497792
• Artikelnr.: 69296399

Autorenporträt

Adam W. Coon is Associate Professor of Latin American Studies and Spanish at the University of Minnesota Morris.