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Book of the Fourth World - Reading the Native Americas through their Literature (Hardcover)
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Book of the Fourth World - Reading the Native Americas through their Literature (Hardcover)
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At the time of its "discovery", the American continent was
identified as the Fourth World of our planet. Today the term has
been taken up again by its "Indian" or native peoples to describe
their own world - both its threatened present condition and its
political history, which stretches back thousands of years before
Columbus. Using indigenous sources as primary sources, Book of the
Fourth World explores the landscapes and chronologies of this world
as they have been seen and interpreted from the inside. Mapping the
continent by this literary means, it pays particular attention to
the well-documented traditions of the Nahuatl (Aztec) and Maya to
the north of the isthmus, and of the Quechua-speaking Inca to the
South. According to both the literary evidence and the testimony of
native Americans themselves, notably at the Quito Conference of
July 1990, an underlying coherence is to be found in the creation
story told in the "bible of America", the Popol vuh of the Quiche
Maya. A classic of world literature, this 16th-century work sets
out a story of evolution understood by Europe only hundreds of
years later; its natural philosophy is now being defended, as a way
of life critical to that of the planet itself, in the tropical
forests of the Amazon. Taking a skeptical view of the 1992
quincentenary and respecting the testimony of the Indians
themselves, this study brings together a wide range of evidence
from what is now Latin and Anglo America. In doing so, it offers
detailed analyses of texts ranging far back into the centuries of
civilized life that antedated Columbus.
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