Parallel Worlds: Genre, Discourse, and Poetics in Contemporary, Colonial, and Classic Maya Literature

Contents

vii Contents List of Illustrations    |    ix Introduction    |    1 Michael D. Carrasco and Kerry M. Hull Part I Finding Continuities in Maya Poetics and Literature Chapter 1 The Narrative Structure of Chol Folktales: One Thousand Years of Literary Tradition    |    21 Nicholas A. Hopkins and J. Kathryn Josserand Part II Establishing Traditions: Hieroglyphic Literature and Poetics Chapter 2 Syntactic Inversion (Hyperbaton) as a Literary Device in Maya Hieroglyphic Texts    |    45 Alfonso Lacadena Chapter 3 Poetic Tenacity: A Diachronic Study of Kennings in Mayan Languages    |    73 Kerry M. Hull Chapter 4 The History, Rhetoric, and Poetics of Three Palenque Narratives    |    123 Michael D. Carrasco Chapter 5 Understanding Discourse: Beyond Couplets and Calendrics First    |    161 Lloyd B. Anderson viii Contents Chapter 6 Drawing and Designing with Words    |    181 Dennis Tedlock Chapter 7 Narrative Structure and the Drum Major Headdress    |    195 Karen Bassie-Sweet, Nicholas A. Hopkins, and J. Kathryn Josserand Part III From Glyphs to Letters: Colonial Maya Poetics and Literature Chapter 8 Creation Narratives in the Postclassic Maya Codices    |    223 Gabrielle Vail Chapter 9 Some Historical Continuities in Lowland Maya Magical Speech Genres: Keying Shamanic Performance    |    253 Timothy W. Knowlton Chapter 10 Appropriating Sacred Speech: Aesthetics and Authority in Colonial Ch’olti’    |    271 Danny Law Chapter 11 Poetics in the Popol Wuj    |    283 Luis Enrique Sam Colop Chapter 12 The Use of Chiasmus by the Ancient K’iche’ Maya    |    311 Allen J. Christenson Part IV Keepers of Tradition: Modern Maya Poetics and Literature Chapter 13 Before Poetry, the Words: A Metalinguistic Digression    |    339 Aurore Monod Becquelin and Alain Breton Chapter 14 Humor through Yucatec Mayan Stories    |    375 Allan F. Burns Chapter 15 A Comparison of Narrative Style in Mopan and Itzaj Mayan    |    401 Charles Andrew Hofling Chapter 16 The Lights Dim but Don’t Go Out on the Stars of Yucatec Maya Oral Literature    |    449 Mary H. Preuss Chapter 17 To Speak the Words of Colonial Tzotzil    |    471 Robert M. Laughlin Glossary    |    477 List of Contributors    |    479 Index    |    481 ...