Telling and Being Told: Storytelling and Cultural Control in Contemporary Yucatec Maya Literatures

Contents

Contents List of Illustrations vii Acknowledgments ix 1. Who Tells What to Whom and How: Orality, Literacy, and Cultural Control 1 2. Writing THE Word: Storytellers, Cultural Brokers, and the Shape of Indigenous Memory 30 3. Into the Archive: Cultural Brokers, Cultural Control, and Writing Oral Maya Literature in the Twentieth Century 61 4. “I’ll tell you the story . . .” : Mariano Bonilla Caamal and Storytelling as Cultural Control 95 5. Telling Maya Modernity: The Works of María Luisa Góngora Pacheco, Ana Patricia Martínez Huchim, and Briceida Cuevas Cob 133 Appendix 1: “The Dwarf of Uxmal” as told by Luis Gonzaga (José May) 161 Appendix 2: “The Dwarf of Uxmal” as told by Humberto Bonilla Caamal 164 Appendix 3: “The Story of Juan Rabbit” as told by Mariano Bonilla Caamal 168 Notes 175 Works Cited 181 Index 195 ...