Binding: Paperback
Description: Nine short essays exploring the K iche Maya story of creation the Popol Vuh. Written during the lockdown in Chicago in the depths of the Covid - 19 pandemic these essays consider the Popol Vuh as a work that was also written during a time of feverish social political and epidemiological crisis as Spanish missionaries and colonial military deepened their conquest of indigenous peoples and cultures in Mesoamerica. What separates the Popol Vuh from many other creation texts is the disposition of the gods engaged in creation. Whereas the book of Genesis is declarative in telling the story of the world's creation the Popol Vuh is interrogative and analytical: the gods for example question whether people actually need to be created given the many perfect animals they have already placed on earth. Emergency uses the historical emergency of the Popol Vuh to frame the ongoing emergencies of colonialism that have surfaced all too clearly in the global health crisis of Covid - 19. In doing so these essays reveal how the authors of the Popol Vuh while implicated in deep social crisis nonetheless insisted on transforming emergency into scenes of social political and intellectual emergence translating crisis into creativity and world creation.
Title: Emergency Reading The Popol Vuh In A Time Of Crisis
Author(s): Garcia Edgar
Publisher: The University Of Chicago Press
Barcode: 9780226818597
Pages: 144 Pages, 1 Halftones
Publication Date: 4/21/2022
Series: Critical Antiquities
Category: Sacred Texts