In the Language of Kings
An Anthology of Mesoamerican Literature, Pre-Columbian to the Present
by Earl Shorris
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One of the most celebrated scholars of Mesoamerican literature assembled this collection of literary examples from the region, reaching back to the earliest extant materials and concluding with contemporary sources. Aztec poetry, Mayan spiritual writing, and many accounts of the horrors of conquest from the perspective of the Indians, sketch a profound portrait of the region and its people.
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Publisher W W Norton & Co Inc |
Date 2001 |
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Date 2002 |
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"[T]he most authoritative and inspiring anthology of pre-Columbian cultures to appear in any language other than Spanish...[Leon-Portilla] has uneartehd documents that were within our reach but that needed a lucid, patient mind to be explained in full. He has made use of a silent, comparitively marginal field of study, that, in his hand, acquuies unparalleled importance."
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