Obsidian Mirror | Reflections on Mayan and Western Realities in Postcolonial Guatemala

Eva D'ews Thomson

ISBN 10: 3639137108 / ISBN 13: 9783639137101

Published by VDM Verlag Dr. Müller, 2009

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Obsidian Mirror | Reflections on Mayan and Western Realities in Postcolonial Guatemala | Eva D'ews Thomson | Taschenbuch | Englisch | VDM Verlag Dr. Müller | EAN 9783639137101 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: preigu GmbH & Co. KG, Lengericher Landstr. 19, 49078 Osnabrück, mail[at]preigu[dot]de | Anbieter: preigu.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Obsidian Mirror | Reflections on Mayan and Western Realities in Postcolonial Guatemala
• Publisher: VDM Verlag Dr. Müller
• Publication Date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3639137108
• ISBN 13: 9783639137101
• Binding: Taschenbuch
• Condition: Neu
• Seller catalogs:
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Synopsis

This work explores the power of myth in post-colonial society and the relationship between the magical realist and realist genres in fiction. The particular focus is on the writings of Miguel Angel Asturias ? the Nobel Prize-winning Guatemalan author whose works first brought magical realism into Western literature. Asturias offered an early and powerful critique in a subtle and artistic form of the world-views that shape Central America: the Mayan and the Western. His critique has gone on to become a major literary form, one that arguably underpins much modern thinking on the connections between art and society. The work will be of interest to students of literature and of the culture of Central America, and be of value to anyone studying the relations between indigenous and Western ways of thought and the impacts on culture of colonisation.

About the Author

Eva D?ews Thomson has a Bachelor of Arts (Honours), and has studied Literature, Creative Writing and Spanish at the University of Canberra, Canberra Australia.