Author: Miguel Angel Asturias
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781891270536
Category : Guatemalan drama
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Legends and plays from Guatemala. It was a groundbreaking achievement of ethnographic surrealism, a liberating avant-garde recreation of popular tales and characters from the Guatemalan collective unconscious.
Legends of Guatemala
Author: Miguel Angel Asturias
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781891270536
Category : Guatemalan drama
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Legends and plays from Guatemala. It was a groundbreaking achievement of ethnographic surrealism, a liberating avant-garde recreation of popular tales and characters from the Guatemalan collective unconscious.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781891270536
Category : Guatemalan drama
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Legends and plays from Guatemala. It was a groundbreaking achievement of ethnographic surrealism, a liberating avant-garde recreation of popular tales and characters from the Guatemalan collective unconscious.
The Mirror of Lida Sal
Author: Miguel Angel Asturias
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
First English-language edition of El espejo de Lida Sal (see HLAS 30:3268), in which the Nobel laureate melds Mayan and Guatemalan myth and folklore in 10 stories whose hallucinatory prose challenges the reader. 'Everything unfolds in a land of natural dreamscapes ... The imagination reels.' Although lacking a table of contents and translator's note, the superb translation recommends the work for classroom use
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
First English-language edition of El espejo de Lida Sal (see HLAS 30:3268), in which the Nobel laureate melds Mayan and Guatemalan myth and folklore in 10 stories whose hallucinatory prose challenges the reader. 'Everything unfolds in a land of natural dreamscapes ... The imagination reels.' Although lacking a table of contents and translator's note, the superb translation recommends the work for classroom use
Souls that Haunt My People
Author: José Recinos
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Category : Guatemala
Languages : en
Pages : 86
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Guatemala
Languages : en
Pages : 86
Book Description
The Emerald Lizard
Author: Carlos Samayoa Chinchilla
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Folk literature, Guatemalan
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
Collection of Guatemala legends and folklore from days of the Maya, the conquistadors and modern times.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Folk literature, Guatemalan
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
Collection of Guatemala legends and folklore from days of the Maya, the conquistadors and modern times.
Guatemala Myths
Author: George Byron Gordon
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ISBN:
Category : Folklore
Languages : en
Pages : 56
Book Description
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ISBN:
Category : Folklore
Languages : en
Pages : 56
Book Description
Magical Realism in Legends of Guatemala by Miguel Angel Asturias
Author: Karin Heike Ebert
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Magic realism (Literature)
Languages : en
Pages : 64
Book Description
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ISBN:
Category : Magic realism (Literature)
Languages : en
Pages : 64
Book Description
The Hummingbird King
Author: Argentina Palacios
Publisher: Troll Communications
ISBN: 9780816730513
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 38
Book Description
A mysterious hummingbird must save a brave Mayan chief from his enemies, who wish to capture the kingdom -- and kill the king!
Publisher: Troll Communications
ISBN: 9780816730513
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 38
Book Description
A mysterious hummingbird must save a brave Mayan chief from his enemies, who wish to capture the kingdom -- and kill the king!
Mayan Folktales
Author: James D. Sexton
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
This collection of folklore offers a rich and lively panorama of Mayan mythic heritage. Here are everyday tales of village life; legends of witches, shamans, spiritualists, tricksters, and devils; fables of naguales, or persons who can change into animal forms; ribald stories of love and life; cautionary tales of strange and menacing neighbors and of the danger lurking within the human heart. These legends narrate origin and creation stories, explain the natural world, and reinforce cultural beliefs and values such as honesty, industriousness, sharing, fairness, and cleverness. Whether tragic or comic, fantastic or earthy, whimsical or profound, these tales capture the mystery, fragility, and power of the Mayan world.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
This collection of folklore offers a rich and lively panorama of Mayan mythic heritage. Here are everyday tales of village life; legends of witches, shamans, spiritualists, tricksters, and devils; fables of naguales, or persons who can change into animal forms; ribald stories of love and life; cautionary tales of strange and menacing neighbors and of the danger lurking within the human heart. These legends narrate origin and creation stories, explain the natural world, and reinforce cultural beliefs and values such as honesty, industriousness, sharing, fairness, and cleverness. Whether tragic or comic, fantastic or earthy, whimsical or profound, these tales capture the mystery, fragility, and power of the Mayan world.
The Hills and the Corn
Author:
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Category : Indians of Central America
Languages : en
Pages : 72
Book Description
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ISBN:
Category : Indians of Central America
Languages : en
Pages : 72
Book Description
Guatemala
Author: Sean Sheehan
Publisher: Marshall Cavendish
ISBN: 9780761434122
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 150
Book Description
Celebrates the diversity of life through the exploration of cultures around the world.
Publisher: Marshall Cavendish
ISBN: 9780761434122
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 150
Book Description
Celebrates the diversity of life through the exploration of cultures around the world.