[Aztlan] Kotzib: The Emergence of a New Maya Literature - Tulane University, New Orleans

[David Hixson]

TUESDAY – March 13, 2007
6:00pm
Kotz’ib: The Emergence of a New Maya Literature
Lecture by Arturo Arias
Richard E. Greenleaf Distinguished Chair in Latin
American Studies
Greenleaf Conference Room
Stone Center for Latin American Studies
100A Jones Hall
Arturo Arias is Director of Latin American Studies at
the University of Redlands .  He is co-writer  for the
screenplay for the film “El Norte” (1984), and author
of six novels in Spanish—Despues de las bombas (1979),
Itzam Na (1981), Jaguar en Llamas(1989), Los caminos
de Paxil (1991), Cascabel (1998) and Sopa de caracol
(2002).  He was winner of the Casa de las Americas
Prize and the Anna Seghers Scholarship for two of
them.  Two of his novels have been translated into
English—After the Bombs (Curbstone Press, 1990) and
Rattlesnake (Curbstone Press, 2003).  Dr. Arias is a
specialist on ethnic issues and subaltern identity, a
subject that is a central theme in both his fiction
and his academic work.  In 1998 he published two books
of literary criticism, one on Guatemalan 20th Century
fiction, La identidad de la palabra, and another one
on contemporary Central American fiction, Gestos
Ceremoniales.  In 2001 he published a critical edition
of Miguel Angel Asturias’s Mulata and the edited
volume.  The Rigoberta Menchú Controversy.  He has
finished a new novel, Arias de don Giovanni, and this
spring his study Taking Their Work: Literature and the
Signs of Central America will be published by the
University of Minnesota Press.  He served as President
of the Latin American Studies Association for
2001-2003.  This event is co-sponsored by the Stone
Center for Latin American Studies and the Department
of Spanish and Portuguese.  Admission is free and open
to the public.  For more information, please contact
Christopher Dunn at cjdunn at tulane.edu.  


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David R. Hixson
Aztlan Moderator &
Doctoral Candidate
Tulane University
Dept. of Anthropology
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