An Unholy Rebellion, Killing the Gods
University of Nebraska Press (Verlag)
978-1-4962-3675-3 (ISBN)
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An Unholy Rebellion, Killing the Gods is the first comprehensive comparison of two of the greatest epics of the Indigenous peoples of Latin America: the Popul Vuh of the Quiché Maya of Guatemala and the Huarochiri Manuscript of Peru’s lower Andean regions. The rebellious tone of both epics illuminates a heretofore overlooked aspect in Latin American Indigenous colonial writing: the sense of political injustice and spiritual sedition directed equally at European-imposed religious practice and at aspects of Indigenous belief. The link between spirituality and political upheaval in Native colonial writing has not been sufficiently explored until this work.
Sharonah Esther Fredrick applies a multidisciplinary approach that utilizes history, literature, archaeology, and anthropology in equal measure to situate the Mayan and Andean narratives within the paradigms of their developing civilizations. An Unholy Rebellion, Killing the Gods decolonizes readers’ perspective by setting Mayan and Andean authorship center stage and illustrates the schisms and shifts in Native civilizations and literatures of Latin America in a way that other literary studies, which relegate Native literature as a prelude to Spanish-language literature, have not yet done. By demonstrating the power of Native American philosophy within the context of the conquest of Latin America, Fredrick illuminates the profound spiritual dissension and radically conflicting ideologies of the Mesoamerican and Andean worlds before and after the Spanish Conquest.
Sharonah Esther Fredrick teaches in the College of Charleston’s Department of Hispanic Studies. She is the Colonial Americas editor for Routledge Resources Online—The Renaissance World.
Preface: Gods and Conquerors, Gods and Rebels
INTRODUCTION: Cosmologies in Collision: Ideology and Historical Background of the Popul Vuh and the Huarochiri Manuscript
CHAPTER 1: The Sources of Political Ambivalence in the Popul Vuh and the Huarochiri Manuscript: Centuries of Theological Doubt
CHAPTER 2: Myth as a Cosmic Weapon: Questioning the Gods
CHAPTER 3: Rebellion and the Merry Go Round of Sovereignty: Cyclical Notions of Time and Uprisings-Linearity and Resignation
CHAPTER 4: The Teachings and Ethics of Huarochiri and the Popul Vuh: Andean and Mayan Legacies
CONCLUSION: Impossible Conclusion?? Compassionate Rebellion as a Way of Life: The Ethical Takeaway
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Erscheinungsdatum | 04.07.2024 |
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Zusatzinfo | Index |
Verlagsort | Lincoln |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte |
Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte | |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik | |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
ISBN-10 | 1-4962-3675-0 / 1496236750 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-4962-3675-3 / 9781496236753 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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