Description

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La presente antolog a pretende ofrecer una muestra parcial de la poes a maya contempor nea guatemalteca, reuniendo los textos de 15 poetas de 6 comunidades ling sticas diferentes: kaqchikel, k'iche', poti', q'eq'chi', q'anjob'al y tz'utujil. Estos poetas, quienes amablemente aceptaron nuestra invitaci n a participar en este trabajo, constituyen por lo menos tres generaciones de escritores que emergen en la coyuntura de la (pos)guerra civil (1960-1996, hasta el presente), la globalizaci n y el surgimiento del movimiento maya en Guatemala. Su producci n textual puede leerse a partir de este contexto social y como una articulaci n discursiva complentaria al trabajo del movimiento en su b squeda por dignificar la memoria maya, trascender el legado colonial y proyectar la afirmaci n de un proyecto nacional-moderno de car cter intercultural.

De origen maya K'iche', Emilio del Valle Escalante es profesor asociado de la UNC-Chapel Hill Department of Romance Studies y se especializa en literatura latinoamericana contempor nea con nfasis en literaturas ind genas del sur de M xico y Am rica del centro.

This anthology aims to offer a partial sample of contemporary Guatemalan Mayan poetry by bringing together the texts of 15 poets from 6 different linguistic communities: kaqchikel, k'iche', poti', q'eq'chi', q'anjob'al and tz'utujil. These poets, who kindly accepted our invitation to participate in this work, constitute at least three generations of writers who emerged in the context of the (post) civil war (1960-1996, up to the present), globalization and the emergence of the Mayan movement in Guatemala. These texts can be read from the perspective of this social context and as a discursive construction contributing to the work of the movement in its search to dignify the Mayan memory, transcend the colonial legacy and spread the assertion of a modern national project of an intercultural nature.

Of K'iche' Mayan origin, Emilio del Valle Escalante is an associate professor in the UNC-Chapel Hill Department of Romance Studies and specializes in contemporary Latin American literature with an emphasis on indigenous literatures from southern Mexico and central America.

About the Author

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Of K'iche' Mayan origin, Emilio del Valle Escalante is an associate professor in the UNC-Chapel Hill Department of Romance Studies and specializes in contemporary Latin American literature with an emphasis on indigenous literatures from southern Mexico and central America.