Word Mingas: Oralitegraphies and Mirrored Visions on Oralitures and Indigenous Contemporary Literatures

Miguel Rocha Vivas,Paul M. Worley,Melissa Birkhofer

Word Mingas: Oralitegraphies and Mirrored Visions on Oralitures and Indigenous Contemporary Literatures
Format
Paperback
Publisher
The University of North Carolina Press
Country
United States
Published
15 August 2021
Pages
344
ISBN
9781469667348

Word Mingas: Oralitegraphies and Mirrored Visions on Oralitures and Indigenous Contemporary Literatures

Miguel Rocha Vivas,Paul M. Worley,Melissa Birkhofer

Word Mingas is an encompassing study of oralitures–multilayered cultural knowledge shared through the power of orality–and written literatures by authors from Colombia and other regions in the hemisphere who self-identify as Indigenous. In consequential dialogue with the most recent theories of decoloniality and interculturality, the book weaves and compares two threads of literary critique Rocha Vivas names as oralitegraphies and mirrored visions. The study focuses on texts produced from the early 1990s to the present, and offers productive avenues to discuss, understand, and foster dialogue with the wide array of symbolic-literary systems of the original peoples. Rocha Vivas offers a valuable contribution to the much-needed dialogue on the basic rights of self-representation, self-determination, and the coexistence of multiple systems of representation and identity.

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