Book of the Fourth World: Reading the Native Americas Through Their Literature Paperback - 1995
by Gordon Brotherston
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At the time of its "discovery", the American continent was identified as the Fourth World of our planet. Today the term has been taken up again by its "Indian" or native peoples to describe their own world - both its threatened present condition and its political history, which stretches back thousands of years before Columbus. Using indigenous sources as primary sources, Book of the Fourth World explores the landscapes and chronologies of this world as they have been seen and interpreted from the inside. Mapping the continent by this literary means, it pays particular attention to the well-documented traditions of the Nahuatl (Aztec) and Maya to the north of the isthmus, and of the Quechua-speaking Inca to the South. According to both the literary evidence and the testimony of native Americans themselves, notably at the Quito Conference of July 1990, an underlying coherence is to be found in the creation story told in the "bible of America", the Popol vuh of the Quiche Maya. A classic of world literature, this 16th-century work sets out a story of evolution understood by Europe only hundreds of years later; its natural philosophy is now being defended, as a way of life critical to that of the planet itself, in the tropical forests of the Amazon. Taking a skeptical view of the 1992 quincentenary and respecting the testimony of the Indians themselves, this study brings together a wide range of evidence from what is now Latin and Anglo America. In doing so, it offers detailed analyses of texts ranging far back into the centuries of civilized life that antedated Columbus.
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- Title Book of the Fourth World: Reading the Native Americas Through Their Literature
- Author Gordon Brotherston
- Binding Paperback
- Edition [ Edition: Repri
- Pages 520
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Cambridge University Press, Cambridge
- Date 1995-11-24
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Bibliography, Glossary, Illustrated
- ISBN 9780521314930 / 0521314933
- Weight 1.6 lbs (0.73 kg)
- Dimensions 9.23 x 6.15 x 0.97 in (23.44 x 15.62 x 2.46 cm)
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Themes
- Cultural Region: Latin America
- Ethnic Orientation: Native American
- Library of Congress subjects Indians, Indian literature - History and criticism
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 92000981
- Dewey Decimal Code 897
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