Holy Wednesday: A Nahua Drama from Early Colonial Mexico (New Cultural Studies) - Softcover

Burkhart, Louise M.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0812215761 ISBN 13: 9780812215762

Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1996

Synopsis

Identified only in 1986, the Nahuatl Holy Week play is the earliest known dramatic script in any Native American language. In Holy Wednesday, Louise Burkhart presents side-by-side English translations of the Nahuatl play and its Spanish source. An accompanying commentary analyzes the differences between the two versions to reveal how the native author altered the Spanish text to fit his own aesthetic sensibility and the broader discursive universe of the Nahua church. A richly detailed introduction places both works and their creators within the cultural and political contexts of late sixteenth-century Mexico and Spain.

About this title

About the Author:

Louise M. Burkhart is a member of the Departments of Anthropology and Latin American and Caribbean Studies at the University at Albany, State University of New York.

Review:

"Writing in a careful yet engaging style, Burkhart succeeds not only in clarifying the historical significance of this Nahuatl interpretation of a Spanish play, she also makes it interesting."—The Americas

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0812215761
• ISBN 13: 9780812215762
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 328