Emergency : reading the Popol vuh in a time of crisis /

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Author / Creator:Garcia, Edgar, 1983- author.
Imprint:Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2022.
©2022
Description:1 online resource (121 pages) : illustrations.
Language:English
Series:Critical antiquities
Critical antiquities.
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13435954
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Varying Form of Title:Reading the Popol vuh in a time of crisis
ISBN:9780226818610
0226818616
9780226818603
0226818608
9780226818597
0226818594
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Online resource; title from PDF title page (ProQuest Ebook Central platform, viewed May 23, 2022).
Summary:"Written during the lockdown in Chicago in the depths of the COVID-19 pandemic, these essays consider the Popol Vuh as a work that was also written during a time of feverish social, political, and epidemiological crisis as Spanish missionaries and colonial military deepened their conquest of indigenous peoples and cultures in Mesoamerica. What separates the Popol Vuh from many other creation texts is the disposition of the gods engaged in creation. Whereas the book of Genesis is declarative in telling the story of the world's creation, the Popol Vuh is interrogative and analytical: the gods, for example, question whether people actually need to be created, given the many perfect animals they have already placed on earth. Emergency uses the historical emergency of the Popol Vuh to frame the ongoing emergencies of colonialism that have surfaced all too clearly in the global health crisis of COVID-19. In doing so, these essays reveal how the authors of the Popol Vuh-while implicated in deep social crisis-nonetheless insisted on transforming emergency into scenes of social, political, and intellectual emergence, translating crisis into creativity and world creation"--
Other form:Print version: Garcia, Edgar, 1983- Emergency. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2022 9780226818603