Book contents
- A History of Mexican Poetry
- A History of Mexican Poetry
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Contributors
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 The Practice of Epic and Lyric Writing in Colonial Mexico
- Chapter 2 La lírica del Fénix: Sor Juana’s Poetic Legacy
- Chapter 3 The Sound of the Word: Music and Social Transgression in Lyric Poetry from the Colonia Onward
- Chapter 4 We, the Romantics
- Chapter 5 Sentimental Sociabilities: The Young Romantics and Their Long-Lived Widows
- Chapter 6 Modernismo’s Strategic Occidentalism: Notes on Manuel Gutiérrez Nájera, Amado Nervo, and José Juan Tablada
- Chapter 7 The Crepusculars: Criollo Modernism and the Invention of the Literary Province
- Chapter 8 Poesía en voz alta: A Trajectory of Poetry and Performance in México
- Chapter 9 The Great Synthesis of the Critical Poets: The Rise of Octavio Paz
- Chapter 10 Octavio Paz and the Institutions of Poetry
- Chapter 11 The Form That Contains Multitudes: The Mexican Long Poem (1924–2020)
- Chapter 12 Radical Freedoms: Neobaroque, Postpoetry
- Chapter 13 The Age of Anthology
- Chapter 14 Twentieth-Century Mexican Poetry: The Popular and the Political
- Chapter 15 Poetry in Indigenous Languages: From the Sixteenth to the Twenty-First Centuries
- Chapter 16 Chicanx Poetry: The Living Lyric
- Chapter 17 Racimos: Dissonances in Mexican Poetry of Today
- Index
- References
Chapter 15 - Poetry in Indigenous Languages: From the Sixteenth to the Twenty-First Centuries
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 21 March 2024
Book contents
- A History of Mexican Poetry
- A History of Mexican Poetry
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Contributors
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 The Practice of Epic and Lyric Writing in Colonial Mexico
- Chapter 2 La lírica del Fénix: Sor Juana’s Poetic Legacy
- Chapter 3 The Sound of the Word: Music and Social Transgression in Lyric Poetry from the Colonia Onward
- Chapter 4 We, the Romantics
- Chapter 5 Sentimental Sociabilities: The Young Romantics and Their Long-Lived Widows
- Chapter 6 Modernismo’s Strategic Occidentalism: Notes on Manuel Gutiérrez Nájera, Amado Nervo, and José Juan Tablada
- Chapter 7 The Crepusculars: Criollo Modernism and the Invention of the Literary Province
- Chapter 8 Poesía en voz alta: A Trajectory of Poetry and Performance in México
- Chapter 9 The Great Synthesis of the Critical Poets: The Rise of Octavio Paz
- Chapter 10 Octavio Paz and the Institutions of Poetry
- Chapter 11 The Form That Contains Multitudes: The Mexican Long Poem (1924–2020)
- Chapter 12 Radical Freedoms: Neobaroque, Postpoetry
- Chapter 13 The Age of Anthology
- Chapter 14 Twentieth-Century Mexican Poetry: The Popular and the Political
- Chapter 15 Poetry in Indigenous Languages: From the Sixteenth to the Twenty-First Centuries
- Chapter 16 Chicanx Poetry: The Living Lyric
- Chapter 17 Racimos: Dissonances in Mexican Poetry of Today
- Index
- References
Summary
This chapter marks out an arc of poetic productions in originary languages, starting in the colonial period with materials compiled by Fray Bernardino de Sahagún and following with productions in Nahuatl penned by Sor Juana. The chapter moves into the nineteenth century with the interventions of Faustino Chimalpopoca, and the attempts to “update” Nahua poetry by José Joaquín Pesado. A critical assessment of the role played by scholars such as Ángel María Garibay and his student Miguel León Portilla during the twentieth century leads into readings of contemporary poets who write in Indigenous languages. Women poets of this genre, such as Natalia Toledo and Irma Pineda, are of particular interest.
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