Voices of the first America : text and context in the new world.

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Bibliography, etc. Note:: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:: The hero twins -- Tula: touchstone of the mesoamerican era -- Quetzalcoatl and the agon of time: a literary reading of the Anales de Cuahtitlan -- The image of Tenochtitlan in the Aztec literary tradition -- Poetics of the Aztecs -- Irrepressible sorcerers: verbal art in colonial Nahua society -- The esoteric and literary language of Don Joan Canul in the Ritual of the Bacabs -- Balam Dz'ib: the arrival of christianity among the Yucatec Maya -- Visual mediation in the transition from oral to written expression -- Life stories among the Mocho -- The wayno in Andean civilization.