Emergency: Reading the Popol Vuh in a Time of Crisis by Edgar Garcia (English) H

Description: Emergency by Edgar Garcia Nine short essays exploring the Kiche Maya story of creation, the Popol Vuh. 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 worlds 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. FORMAT Hardcover LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Author Biography Edgar Garcia is the Neubauer Family Associate Professor in the Department of English at the University of Chicago. He is the author of Skins of Columbus: A Dream Ethnography and Signs of the Americas: A Poetics of Pictography, Hieroglyphs, and Khipu, the latter also published by the University of Chicago Press. Table of Contents Birds Wealth Caves Television Demons Migrations Love The Sun Mormons Afterword References Index Review "A work concerned with multiplicity. . . . Garcias Emergency is a reorientation, a shift in perspective, while recognizing there is no such thing as a return to originality nor to a specific origin point. What if origin is a weaving, a constant wearing of stories and timetables, perpetual changes and cyclical advantages?" * Cleveland Review of Books *"Garcia contributes a penetrating and eloquent exposition of a unique document of the indigenous Americas. He shows how the Popol Vuh extends our understanding of oppression and ecological ruin in our time." -- Alphonso Lingis, author of Irrevocable: A Philosophy of Mortality"In this brilliant exegesis, Garcia reveals the Popol Vuh as a living document, a dialogical story of creation crafted in conditions of colonial emergency, which still bears urgent relevance today. Consisting of a series of short and lyrical essays on a wide range of topics, Emergency is a thought-provoking commentary essential for anyone who engages with this foundational text." -- Claudia Brittenham, author of The Murals of Cacaxtla: The Power of Painting in Ancient Central Mexico"I would like to believe that the exquisite tapestry of this book, which weaves together history, myth, philosophical reflection, and literary criticism, heralds a new era of poetic scholarship in the humanities (poetic in Vicos sense). We are in need of this kind of imaginative reanimation of our academic vocation." -- Robert Pogue Harrison, author of Juvenescence: A Cultural History of Our Age Review Quote "I would like to believe that the exquisite tapestry of this book, which weaves together history, myth, philosophical reflection, and literary criticism, heralds a new era of poetic scholarship in the humanities (poetic in Vicos sense). We are in need of this kind of imaginative reanimation of our academic vocation." Details ISBN0226818608 Author Edgar Garcia Short Title Emergency Pages 136 Series Critical Antiquities Language English Year 2022 ISBN-10 0226818608 ISBN-13 9780226818603 Format Hardcover Subtitle Reading the Popol Vuh in a Time of Crisis Imprint University of Chicago Press Country of Publication United States Illustrations 1 halftone AU Release Date 2022-04-21 NZ Release Date 2022-04-21 US Release Date 2022-04-21 Publication Date 2022-04-21 UK Release Date 2022-04-21 Publisher The University of Chicago Press DEWEY 299.78423 Audience Professional & Vocational We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:135046912;

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