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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 Three/Tomo Tres: Theater/Teatro by Carlos Montemayor, Donald H. Frischmann is a book available to read on EtoBox.

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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 Three contains plays by six Mexican indigenous writers. Their plays 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 introduce the work of each playwright and discuss the role o

Author

Carlos Montemayor, Donald H. Frischmann

Publisher

University of Texas Press

Published

2007

Language

EN

ISBN

9780292705807

Subjects

History, Language Learning, Drama

Updated

2026-03-25