The Serpent's Plumes : Contemporary Nahua Flowered Words in Movement EPUB
by Adam W. Coon
Part of the SUNY series, Trans-Indigenous Decolonial Critiques series
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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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- Pages:358 pages
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- Publication Date:01/05/2024
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Download - Immediately Available
- Format:EPUB
- Pages:358 pages
- Publisher:State University of New York Press
- Publication Date:01/05/2024
- Category:
- ISBN:9781438497792