Abstract

ALEJOS GARCIA, José. Transgressing the Canon. Emergence of the Maya Literary Movement in the Literary Critics. Estud. cult. maya [online]. 2023, vol.61, pp.281-306.  Epub June 26, 2023. ISSN 0185-2574.  https://doi.org/10.19130/iifl.ecm/61.002x4856001sm00.

The emergence of Maya writers bursts with original, novel, and transgressing proposals, within the contemporary political context of recognition of cultural rights and vindications from First Nations peoples. Such emergence has awakened a growing interest among diverse publics. Among them, literary critics stand at a special place, as many of them have tried to define such emergence and locate it as a particular category within the national or regional literary sphere. Contrary to that assimilationistic approach, this paper argues that through their literary works Maya writers are involved in a larger artistic indigenous movement that pursues not a place in the national literature, but that aims to question and redefine the hegemonic literary canon itself.

Keywords : Cultural Semiotics; Literary Canon; Literary Critics; Contemporary Maya Literature; Indigenous Writers.

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