Holy Wednesday

by Burkhart, Louise M.

• ISBN13: 9780812215762
• ISBN10: 0812215761
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1996-06-01
• Publisher: Univ of Pennsylvania Pr

Summary

Identified only in 1986, the Nahuatl Holy Week play is the earliest known dramatic script in any Native American language. InHoly 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. 978-0-8122-3368-1 = IBM compatible disc 978-0-8122-3367-4 = Mac compatible disc

Author Biography

Louise M. Burkhart is a member of the Departments of Anthropology and Latin American and Caribbean Studies at the University at Albany, State University of New York.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. xi
The Setting	p. 9
Spain	p. 11
Mexico	p. 37
Interpreting Holy Wednesday""	p. 89
The Plays	p. 103
Prologue to the Translations	p. 105
The Translations	p. 109
Commentary on the Plays	p. 165
Appendix: Comparative Texts	p. 255
Notes	p. 279
References Cited	p. 291
Index	p. 307
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