Víctor Montejo

Kidnapped to the Underworld

Memories of Xibalba Volume 95
Übersetzer: Sell, Sean S

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In the tradition of both the Popol Vuh and the Divine Comedy, Víctor Montejo's genre-breaking narrative recounts his grandfather's journey to the Maya underworld of Xibalba.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Arizona Press
• Seitenzahl: 166
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. August 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 214mm x 138mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 227g
• ISBN-13: 9780816552597
• ISBN-10: 0816552592
• Artikelnr.: 70205454

Autorenporträt

Víctor Montejo is professor emeritus of Native American studies at the University of California, Davis. His previous books include Popol Vuh: A Sacred Book of the Maya; Maya Intellectual Renaissance: Identity, Representation, and Leadership; El Q'anil: Man of Lightning; Voices from Exile: Violence and Survival in Modern Maya History; and Mayalogue: An Interactionist Theory of Indigenous Cultures. Sean S. Sell is co-editor and translator of Chiapas Maya Awakening: Contemporary Poems and Short Stories, and translator of Ch'ayemal nich'nabiletik / Los hijos errantes / The Errant Children: A Trilingual Edition. Sell has a PhD in comparative literature from the University of California, Davis, where he is currently a professor.