| Holy Wednesday: A Nahua Drama from Early Colonial Mexico Contributor(s): Burkhart, Louise M. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0812215761 ISBN-13: 9780812215762 Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press OUR PRICE: $33.20 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: April 1996 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Native American - History | Latin America - Mexico - Drama | Religious & Liturgical |
| Dewey: 897.45 |
| LCCN: 95-53129 |
| Lexile Measure: 1350 |
| Series: New Cultural Studies |
| Physical Information: 0.86" H x 6.09" W x 9.03" (1.18 lbs) 328 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Latin America - Ethnic Orientation - Native American |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Identified only in 1986, the Nahuatl Holy Week play is the earliest known dramatic script in any Native American language. In Holy Wednesday, Louise Burkhart presents side-by-side English translations of the Nahuatl play and its Spanish source. An accompanying commentary analyzes the differences between the two versions to reveal how the native author altered the Spanish text to fit his own aesthetic sensibility and the broader discursive universe of the Nahua church. A richly detailed introduction places both works and their creators within the cultural and political contexts of late sixteenth-century Mexico and Spain. |