Journeys to the Maya Lowlands of Chiapas on a quest for the author's Indio heritage and a vision of the multicultured identity emerging in America. This book attempts to shed the trappings and privileges of his life in California in order to reduce his distance from the dispersed and shrinking Mayan population.
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From the Publisher:
The internal struggle of a Chicano poet returning to the Mexican homeland only to find his Indian realities distorted and exploited
From the Inside Flap:
"This is a book written from the heart. Through powerful prose, Mayan Drifter lays bare the skeletal essence of a hemispheric history in which the Lacandon Maya and jungle become metaphor for the onslaught confronting the indigenous peoples of the Americas. Cast in the moving travelogue of personal memory and the ethnographic, the people of Tijuana's shanties, California's migrant paths and cities, Mexico City sidewalks, and colonial Mexican centers all form part of the mosaic. Juan Felipe's journey is a true transmigration into the essence of a conceptual and geopolitical borderland and its current dilemmas. This is a passionate and complex tale set in modern times. Full of imagery and color, at times joyful and hilarious, and at others tearfully sad, Mayan Drifter speaks to us all. Juan Felipe Herrera offers us a book to read, and reread, to think with and ponder; in Mayan Drifter we hear the voices of humanity that speak out powerfully in eloquent prose." —Roberto Alvarez, Associate Professor of Anthropology, Arizona State University
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- PublisherTemple University Press
- Publication date1997
- ISBN 10 1566394821
- ISBN 13 9781566394826
- BindingPaperback
- Edition number1
- Number of pages288
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