Sharonah Esther Fredrick

An Unholy Rebellion, Killing the Gods

Political Ideology and Insurrection in the Mayan Popul Vuh and the Andean Huarochiri Manuscript

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Produktbeschreibung

This groundbreaking work in literature, cultural studies, and history compares the two 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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Nebraska Press
• Seitenzahl: 368
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. August 2024
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm
• ISBN-13: 9781496236753
• ISBN-10: 1496236750
• Artikelnr.: 70290504

Autorenporträt

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.  

Inhaltsangabe

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