Mayan Drifter Pb

Mayan Drifter Pb

Editorial Reviews
Midwest Book Review
Like the Mayan drifter, this literary work crosses and extends boundaries. In a variety of narrative voices, poems, and a play, across time, Juan Felipe Herrera recounts how the Maya have been invaded by the Spanish, the government, the multinational corporations of the petrochemical industry, and anthropologists. The Maya survive and resist as their numbers dwindle and the forces that mount against them become more powerful. Inspired by the Maya's resilience, Herrera envisions the disappearance of borders and evokes a fluid American self that needs no fixed identity or location. Mayan Drifter is a literary tour de force, a kind of safari into the soul and fate of a remarkable people, a monument to what has gone, and a template for what might yet come to pass.

Book Description
In Mayan Drifter Juan Felipe Herrera journeys to the Maya Lowlands of Chiapas on a quest for his Indio heritage and a vision of the multicultured identity emerging in America. He attempts to shed the trappings and privileges of his life in California in order to reduce his distance from the dispersed and shrinking Mayan population. In Mexico, Herrera seeks a deeper understanding of his homeland's history, its exploitation, and looks to realize his own place in relation to the struggle of his people.

Like the Mayan drifter, the text crosses and extends boundaries. In a variety of narrative voices, poems, and a play, across time, Herrera recounts how the Maya have been invaded by the Spanish, the government, the multinational corporations of the petrochemical industry, and anthropologists. The Maya survive and resist as their numbers dwindle and the forces that mount against them become more powerful.

Inspired by the Maya's resilience, Herrera envisions the disappearance of borders and evokes a fluid American self that needs no fixed identity or location. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

Mayan Drifter Pb

Mayan Drifter Pb,Juan Herrera,Temple University Press,1566394821,20th century,Americans,Biography,Chiapas,General,Herrera, Juan Felipe,History,Literary,Mayas,Mexico,Poets, American,Social life and customs,Sociology,Travel

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