Legends of Guatemala |
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Author:
| Asturias, Miguel Ángel |
Translator:
| Washbourne, Kelly |
Prologue by:
| Martin, Gerald |
ISBN: | 978-1-891270-53-6 |
Publication Date: | Sep 2012 |
Publisher: | Latin American Literary Review Press
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Book Format: | Paperback |
List Price: | USD $19.00 |
Book Description:
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The first English-language translation of the work of a Guatemalan master, this groundbreaking achievement of "ethnographic surrealism" promotes cross-cultural understanding. A liberating, avant-garde recreation of popular tales and characters from the Guatemalan collective unconscious—including, from the Mayan sacred text, the Popol Vuh—this book contains a riot of folklore, colonial resistance,...
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The first English-language translation of the work of a Guatemalan master, this groundbreaking achievement of "ethnographic surrealism" promotes cross-cultural understanding. A liberating, avant-garde recreation of popular tales and characters from the Guatemalan collective unconscious—including, from the Mayan sacred text, the Popol Vuh—this book contains a riot of folklore, colonial resistance, animistic nature, and the unfolding drama of hybrid ethnic identity formation.