Decolonial Ch'owen Across Abiayala and Turtle Island: Calixta Gabriel Xiquín's Poetic Invocations of Kaqchikel Spirituality, the Cardinal Points, and Trans-Indigenous Grandmothers.
Kaqchikel intellectual and ajq'ij (spiritual guide, daykeeper) Calixta Gabriel Xiquín connects Kaqchikel Mayas with other Indigenous activist initiatives throughout the hemisphere through her explicit references to the cardinal points in La cosmovisión maya y las mujeres (2008). As Gabriel Xiquín en...
| Published in: | Studies in American Indian Literatures Vol. 34; no. 3/4; pp. 50 - 77 |
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Fall/Winter2022
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