Abiayalan Pluriverses: Bridging Indigenous Studies and Hispanic Studies looks for pathways that better connect two often siloed disciplines. This edited collection brings together different disciplinary experiences and perspectives to this objective, weaving together researchers, artists, instructors, and authors who have found ways of bridging Indigenous and Hispanic studies through trans-Indigenous reading methods, intercultural dialogues, and reflections on translation and epistemology. Each chapter brings rich context that bears on some aspect of the Indigenous Americas and its crossroads with Hispanic studies, from Canada to Chile. Such a hemispheric and interdisciplinary approach offers innovative and significant means of challenging the coloniality of Hispanic studies.

Pone de relieve las características y posibilidades de esa maravillosa y conflictiva edad. Alerta acerca del peligro que gravita sobre los padres de familia, quienes, al estar inmersos en el tráfago de lo cotidiano, olvidan cuál es su papel en la crianza y educación de sus hijos, y terminan sustituyendo las carencias de afecto y el vacío de su presencia con la exagerada complacencia y la permisividad.

As part of the larger, ongoing movement throughout Latin America to reclaim non-Hispanic cultural heritages and identities, indigenous writers in Mexico are reappropriating the written word in their ancestral tongues and in Spanish. As a result, the long-marginalized, innermost feelings, needs, and worldviews of Mexico's ten to twenty million indigenous peoples are now being widely revealed to the Western societies with which these peoples coexist. To contribute to this process and serve as a bridge of intercultural communication and understanding, this groundbreaking, three-volume anthology gathers works by the leading generation of writers in thirteen Mexican indigenous languages: Nahuatl, Maya, Tzotzil, Tzeltal, Tojolabal, Tabasco Chontal, Purepecha, Sierra Zapoteco, Isthmus Zapoteco, Mazateco, Ñahñu, Totonaco, and Huichol. Volume Two contains poetry by Mexican indigenous writers. Their poems appear first in their native language, followed by English and Spanish translations. Montemayor and Frischmann have abundantly annotated the Spanish, English, and indigenous-language texts and added glossaries and essays that discuss the formal and linguistic qualities of the poems, as well as their place within contemporary poetry. These supporting materials make the anthology especially accessible and interesting for nonspecialist readers seeking a greater understanding of Mexico's indigenous peoples.

Línea de fondo es quehacer cotidiano. No es libro con una estructura preconcebida, es un monumento a la creatividad. La unidad temática la da la espontaneidad y la inventiva misma. Es movimiento consciente y magnético hacia la belleza, llámese "esteticismo" o "preciocismo". Estilísticamente hablando, el esqueleto de Línea de Fondo es la voluntad de corrección, de depuración. No se puede hablar de un "asunto" como si fuera una obra narrativa o una poesía narrativa porque no lo es. No hay más argumento que el anhelo de perfección poética unido a un intento de sublimación anímica que se intenta trasmitir al lector. Es "comunicación" si consideramos que el lenguaje ha sido modificado, la arquitectura de la palabra reconstruida, la ortografía remodelada y la semántica sumergida en un catalizador que la renueva. La vieja retórica emerge con vida del oscuro experimentalismo y las constantes referencias arrojan sabor, color y recuerdos táctiles. Poesía desnuda, que no admite fronteras ni tabúes. Poesía automática, fantástica, cuyo tema es el mismísimo azar, el amor, el amor como línea de fondo... ¿Estamos por arriba? ¿Estamos por debajo? Esa es la cuestión...

This anthology gathers works by the leading generation of writers in thirteen Mexican indigenous languages: Nahuatl, Maya, Tzotzil, Tzeltal, Tojolabal, Tabasco Chontal, Purepecha, Sierra Zapoteco, Isthmus Zapoteco, Mazateco, Ñahñu, Totonaco, and Huichol. Volume 1 contains narratives and essays by Mexican indigenous writers. Their texts appear first in their native language, followed by English and Spanish translations.