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Modernist Transitions: Cultural Encounters Between British And Bangla Modernist Fiction From 1910s To 1950s, Shamika Shabnam Dec 2024

Modernist Transitions: Cultural Encounters Between British And Bangla Modernist Fiction From 1910s To 1950s, Shamika Shabnam

Critical Humanities

A Review of Modernist Transitions: Cultural Encounters between British and Bangla Modernist Fiction from 1910s to 1950s


Book Review: Mayalogue: An Interactionist Theory Of Indigenous Cultures, Arcia Tecun Dec 2024

Book Review: Mayalogue: An Interactionist Theory Of Indigenous Cultures, Arcia Tecun

Maya America: Journal of Essays, Commentary, and Analysis

Mayalogue: An Interactionist Theory of Indigenous Cultures by Victor Montejo

Albany: State University of New York Press, 2021. 248 pp

Arcia Tecun analyzes and interacts with Montejo’s discussions and logics, resulting in a postcolonial indigenous conversation between reviewer and book author.


Corazón De Maíz Un Tributo A Los Pueblos Mayas, Patricia López Dec 2024

Corazón De Maíz Un Tributo A Los Pueblos Mayas, Patricia López

Maya America: Journal of Essays, Commentary, and Analysis

English Abstract:

Corazón de Maíz gathers the stories and recipes for traditional Maya cooking in the regions of Huehuetenango, and is designed to promote the survival of the culinary system of the grand-mothers, and the food that they prepared with love for the whole family. This “culinary novel” contains myths, legends, stories of the origin of some foods, cooking tech-niques and methods. The foods prepared in the altiplano region developed from millenary traditions, the Hispanic invasion, the ravages of climate change bringing droughts and plagues that destroy life, and the various consequences and influences of migration. For the Maya, corn …


Mixed Race Futurity Through Contemporary Archetypes: Mutants, Cyborgs And Dhampirs, Kobe Jackson Dec 2024

Mixed Race Futurity Through Contemporary Archetypes: Mutants, Cyborgs And Dhampirs, Kobe Jackson

Masters Theses

Analysis of Enlightenment philosphes reveals how the contemporary archetypes, mutants, cyborgs and dhampirs may be situated as sources for understanding mixed race positionality. Arranged on a trajectory of hybrid mythology reaching from ancient times into the present day, their contemporary relevance is put into context. Through modern speculative fiction, historical mythology and the theoretical frameworks of sociology, and philosophy, two tropes are revealed to be imposed roles for mixed race people. The first one, the tragic hybrid is a term which references a character specific to the context of American colonial slavery, the tragic mulatto. By reframing the term, tragic …


Maya America Vol. 6 Iss 2 - Front Matter, Maya America Editors Dec 2024

Maya America Vol. 6 Iss 2 - Front Matter, Maya America Editors

Maya America: Journal of Essays, Commentary, and Analysis

Front Matter includes the covers and Introductory Note


Book Review: Hojas Sueltas., Emil' Keme Dec 2024

Book Review: Hojas Sueltas., Emil' Keme

Maya America: Journal of Essays, Commentary, and Analysis

Hojas sueltas. by Daniel Caño.

Quetzaltenango Guatemala. POE, 2024. 204 pp

ISBN 978-9929-732-17-9.

As an alternative to the standard book review, Maya America has reprinted the prologue to Hojas Sueltas, which was written by Emil’ Keme. Also, this year, Daniel Caño published another new book, Versos improvisados. Daniel can be reached at [email protected].

Document is in Spanish.


Revisiting Men Of Maize: Historical Truths, Literary Distortions, And Asturias In Today’S Guatemala, Elaine Elliott Dec 2024

Revisiting Men Of Maize: Historical Truths, Literary Distortions, And Asturias In Today’S Guatemala, Elaine Elliott

Maya America: Journal of Essays, Commentary, and Analysis

In 2024, a renewed appreciation for the Guatemalan Nobel Prize winner Miguel Ángel Asturias is taking place to mark the 50th anniversary of Asturias’ death. This essay examines the historical and literary context of the author’s groundbreaking novel Hombres de maíz (Men of Maize), and the book’s portrayal of indigenous Maya resistance against ladino landowners in Guatemala. Evidence indicates that Asturias obtained his views of ladino – Maya conflict from historic land conflicts in Ilom, Chajul. Asturias distorted the events, but his book inspired a generation of revolutionaries, some of whom organized and fought in the Ixil region and Ilom. …


A Wīnak Perspective On Cosmovisíon Maya And Eco-Justice Education, Arcia Tecun Dec 2024

A Wīnak Perspective On Cosmovisíon Maya And Eco-Justice Education, Arcia Tecun

Maya America: Journal of Essays, Commentary, and Analysis

This article responds to questions of relational ethics in Indigenous mobility with a critically conscious approach to cosmovisíon Maya in Soonkahni (Salt Lake Valley). An urban and mobile Mayan positionality, identified as Wīnak, guides an analysis of complex Indigenous experiences, and possibilities found in Eco-Justice. The limits from the prevailing and dominant colonial logics of conservation and environmentalism are re-imagined through Indigenous approaches to ‘Earth Wellbeing’. The application of critically conscious cosmovisíon Maya reveals a simultaneous challenge to systems of power, and to formations of an Indigenous relational ethic that is both locally meaningful and globally relevant. This essay concludes …


Señoritas On And Off The Silver Screen: How Chicana Women Organized For Equality And Challenged The Cultural Prison Of Sexualized Media Representations In The First Half Of The Twentieth-Century, Rossandra Paloma Martinez Dec 2024

Señoritas On And Off The Silver Screen: How Chicana Women Organized For Equality And Challenged The Cultural Prison Of Sexualized Media Representations In The First Half Of The Twentieth-Century, Rossandra Paloma Martinez

Electronic Theses, Projects, and Dissertations

This research is personal for me due to lived experience and day-to-day situations where I have felt the pressures of unattainable beauty standards and society’s fluid definition of beauty and femininity surrounding Chicana, Latinas, Mexican, and Mexican-American women. What inspired me to pursue these issues and topics was the work of Dr. Vicki Lynn Ruiz in her book From Out of the Shadows: Mexican Women in Twentieth-Century America. This research focuses on rival and contested images of Chicana, Mexican, Mexican-American and Latina labor advocates and activists from the early twentieth as opposed to sexualized and eroticized packaged caricatures that Hollywood …


Fostering Ruins: The Tales Of Kaum Depok, Yoga Susatyo Dec 2024

Fostering Ruins: The Tales Of Kaum Depok, Yoga Susatyo

Antropologi Indonesia

This study identifies the utilization of Social and Built Capital by the Kaum Depok Community in maintaining community existence amidst social transformation. Previous research on the Kaum Depok and similar ethnic communities found that group self-identity, the role of values-religion-beliefs, architecture, the use of distinctive/local language, and the inclusivity nature of the group significantly contribute to the community's existence. I agree that these aspects impact this ethnic community's existence, however the community capital, particularly social and built capital, plays a crucial role in the effort to preserve the community. This study employs a qualitative approach to classify and analyze community's …


Racing Latinidad, Renee Hudson Nov 2024

Racing Latinidad, Renee Hudson

English Faculty Books and Book Chapters

This chapter argues that the terms “Latinx” and “latinidad” are messy signifiers that allow us to contend with Latinx’s complicated racial history. While the term Latinx continues to be controversial, and scholars such as Tatiana Flores have examined the case for cancelling latinidad, “Racing Latinidad” points to how latinidad can signify particular political commitments and affinities. Through readings of Manuel Muñoz’s What You See in the Dark (2011) and Dahlma Llanos-Figueroa’s Daughters of the Stone (2009), this chapter illuminates how excavating racial histories outside the logic of the state is a way to summon a politics to imagine a people. …


Full Issue Oct 2024

Full Issue

CouRaGeouS Cuentos: A Journal of Counternarratives

No abstract provided.


The Latino Bench At Fortuna High School Oct 2024

The Latino Bench At Fortuna High School

CouRaGeouS Cuentos: A Journal of Counternarratives

No abstract provided.


Promotorx 2024 Team Oct 2024

Promotorx 2024 Team

CouRaGeouS Cuentos: A Journal of Counternarratives

No abstract provided.


Native American Mural At Eureka High School Oct 2024

Native American Mural At Eureka High School

CouRaGeouS Cuentos: A Journal of Counternarratives

No abstract provided.


Mural Of Josiah Lawson At Arcata High School Oct 2024

Mural Of Josiah Lawson At Arcata High School

CouRaGeouS Cuentos: A Journal of Counternarratives

No abstract provided.


Mural At Cal Poly Humboldt Oct 2024

Mural At Cal Poly Humboldt

CouRaGeouS Cuentos: A Journal of Counternarratives

No abstract provided.


Mural At Eureka High School Oct 2024

Mural At Eureka High School

CouRaGeouS Cuentos: A Journal of Counternarratives

No abstract provided.


Josiah Lawson Mural Oct 2024

Josiah Lawson Mural

CouRaGeouS Cuentos: A Journal of Counternarratives

No abstract provided.


A Timeline Of Nuestra Historia En Humboldt Oct 2024

A Timeline Of Nuestra Historia En Humboldt

CouRaGeouS Cuentos: A Journal of Counternarratives

No abstract provided.


Zaira, Zaira Angon Oct 2024

Zaira, Zaira Angon

CouRaGeouS Cuentos: A Journal of Counternarratives

No abstract provided.


Viajes Por Cumplir Y Metas Por Lograr, Yudibel Parral Oct 2024

Viajes Por Cumplir Y Metas Por Lograr, Yudibel Parral

CouRaGeouS Cuentos: A Journal of Counternarratives

No abstract provided.


Growing Up Queer, Yocelin Rios Oct 2024

Growing Up Queer, Yocelin Rios

CouRaGeouS Cuentos: A Journal of Counternarratives

No abstract provided.


Adiós A La Isla, Yajeirys Rosario Sanchez Oct 2024

Adiós A La Isla, Yajeirys Rosario Sanchez

CouRaGeouS Cuentos: A Journal of Counternarratives

No abstract provided.


Take Care Of Yourself, Xochitl Cabrera Oct 2024

Take Care Of Yourself, Xochitl Cabrera

CouRaGeouS Cuentos: A Journal of Counternarratives

No abstract provided.


Honoring My Immigrant Journey, Sayda Trujillo Oct 2024

Honoring My Immigrant Journey, Sayda Trujillo

CouRaGeouS Cuentos: A Journal of Counternarratives

No abstract provided.


Roots Of Resistance: My Journey From San Fransisco To Humboldt, Renee Saucedo Oct 2024

Roots Of Resistance: My Journey From San Fransisco To Humboldt, Renee Saucedo

CouRaGeouS Cuentos: A Journal of Counternarratives

No abstract provided.


Homage To My Butt, Ramona J.J. Bell Oct 2024

Homage To My Butt, Ramona J.J. Bell

CouRaGeouS Cuentos: A Journal of Counternarratives

No abstract provided.


Connected, Ramona J.J. Bell Oct 2024

Connected, Ramona J.J. Bell

CouRaGeouS Cuentos: A Journal of Counternarratives

No abstract provided.


Breathe, Ramona J.J. Bell Oct 2024

Breathe, Ramona J.J. Bell

CouRaGeouS Cuentos: A Journal of Counternarratives

No abstract provided.