2022-2023 Undergraduate Academic Catalogue 
    
    Mar 28, 2024  
2022-2023 Undergraduate Academic Catalogue [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

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SN 374 - Three Masterworks of Guatemalan Literature

(3.00 cr.)

Examines three masterworks of Guatemalan literature from the vantage point of the Maya K'iché people. The Popol Vuh, sometimes called the Mayan Bible, finds its origins in cryptographic writing inscribed on the walls of monuments and on pottery in the seventh century, finally being transliterated into an alphabetic script in the sixteenth century and first translated into Spanish during the eighteenth century. Hombres de Maíz by the 1967 Nobel Laureate Miguel Angel Asturias, a non-K'iché learned author, delves into K'iché-Mayan knowledge. Finally, the K'iché-Mayan activist Rigoberta Menchú's testimony given to the Venezuelan anthropologist Elizabeth Burgos in the midst of Guatemala's civil war of the 1970s and 1980s moved Menchú to the center of world consciousness. Menchú was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1992. Attention is given to form and content, problems of epigraphy, notions of literature, indigenismo, indigenous expression, and gender roles, as well as cosmology, nationality, and sadly, genocide. Closed to students who have taken SN 304 .

Prerequisite: SN 203  or SN 217  or written permission of the instructor.
Sessions Typically Offered: Fall/Spring
Years Typically Offered: Varies

Interdisciplinary Studies: CU/ICL/IL



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