The Maya Literary Renaissance is a growing yet little-known literary phenomenon that can redefine our understanding of literature universally. By analyzing eight representative texts of this new and vibrant literary movement, the book argues that the texts present literature as a trans-species phenomenon that is not reducible only to human creativity. Based on detailed textual analysis of the literature in both Maya and Spanish as well as first-hand conversations with the writers themselves, the book develops the first conceptual map of how literature constantly emerges from wider creative patterns in nature. This process, defined as literary inhabitation, is explained by synthesizing core Maya cultural concepts with diverse philosophical, literary, anthropological and biological theories. In the context of the Yucatan Peninsula, where the texts come from, literary inhabitation is presented as an integral part of bioregional becoming, the evolution of the Peninsula as a constantly unfolding dialogue.
Prologue
Chapter One: Literary Inhabitation
Part One: Luum: Writing the Land
Chapter Two: My Land
Chapter Three: Memories from the Heart of the Forest
Chapter Four: They Sing
Chapter Five: A Dogs Lament of a Dogs Life
Part Two: W?inik: Writing Humanity
Chapter Six: Primordial Fire
Chapter Seven: Tales of Old Mother Corn
Chapter Eight: The Suffering of My Villagelóþ
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