Maize Landscapes in Indigenous Literatures: Toward Alternative Cartographic Imaginaries.
The twentieth and twenty-first centuries have witnessed a literary revival in the Indigenous languages of the region known canonically as “Latin America.” Across this varied corpus, a major theme is the cultural significance of maize. This article compares the depiction of maize in four bilingual po...
| Publicado en: | Latin American Research Review Vol. 60; no. 1; pp. 1 - 19 |
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Cambridge University Press
Mar2025
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