Word Mingas is an English-language translation by Paul M. Worley and Melissa Birkhofer of the award-winning book
Mingas de la palabra written by Miguel Rocha Vivas (Casa de las Americas, 2016). It is an encompassing study of oralitures–multilayered cultural knowledge shared through the power of orality–and written literatures by authors from Colombia and other regions in the hemisphere who self-identify as Indigenous. In consequential dialogue with the most recent theories of decoloniality and interculturality, the book weaves and compares two threads of literary critique Rocha Vivas names as
oralitegraphies and
mirrored visions. The study focuses on texts produced from the early 1990s to the present, and offers productive avenues to discuss, understand, and foster dialogue with the wide array of symbolic-literary systems of the original peoples. Rocha Vivas offers a valuable contribution to the much-needed dialogue on the basic rights of self-representation, self-determination, and the coexistence of multiple systems of representation and identity.
Over de auteur
Melissa Birkhofer is an Instructor in English and the Director of the U.S. Latinx Studies Program at Western Carolina University.
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