Signs of the Americas : a poetics of pictography, hieroglyphs, and khipu / Edgar Garcia.
Indigenous sign-systems, such as pictographs, petroglyphs, hieroglyphs, and khipu, are usually understood as relics from an inaccessible past. That is far from the truth, however, as Edgar Garcia makes clear in Signs of the Americas. Rather than being dead languages, these sign-systems have always b...
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Preface: Threshold Magic
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Unnatural Signs
- Chapter One. World Poetry and Its Disavowals: A Poetics of Subsumption from the Aztec Priests to Ed Dorn
- Chapter Two. Pictographic Kinships: Simon Ortiz's Spiral Lands and Jaime de Angulo's Old Time Stories
- Chapter Three. Pictography, Law, and Earth: Gerald Vizenor, John Borrows, and Louise Erdrich
- Chapter Four. Hieroglyphic Parallelism: Mayan Metalepsis in Charles Olson's Mayan Letters, Cy Twombly's Poems to the Sea, and Alurista's Spik in Glyph?
- Chapter Five. Death Spaces: Shamanic Signifiers in Gloria Anzaldúa and William Burroughs
- Chapter Six. Khipu, Analepsis, and Other Natural Signs: Cecilia Vicuña's Poetics of Weaving and Joaquín Torres-García's La Ciudad sin Nombre
- Afterword: Anthropological Poetics
- Notes
- References
- Index.