Charles M Pigott
Biographic Data
| ID | 657910 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Charles M Pigott |
| GIVEN NAMES | Charles M |
| FAMILY NAME | Pigott |
| SIGNATURE | PIGOTT C M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Cambridge |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2512-2576 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Maize Landscapes in Indigenous Literatures: Toward Alternative Cartographic Imaginaries
The twentieth and twenty-first centuries have witnessed a literary revival in the Indigenous languages of the region known canonically as "Latin America." Across this varied corpus, a major theme is the cultural significance of maize. This article compares the depiction of maize in four bilingual poems, each written in a different Indigenous language alongside Spanish: Nahuatl (Ethel Xochitiotzin Pérez), Yucatec Maya (María Dolores Dzul Barboza),…
Landscapes of Heterogeneity in a Mid-Twentieth-Century Quechua Poem
This chapter discusses a bilingual poem in Quechua and Spanish by the twentieth-century Peruvian writer, Teodoro Meneses Morales (1915-87). It argues that the poem evinces a loss of solidarity between humanity and the wider cosmos and that this loss is the result of social, cultural, and environmental transitions occurring at the time. By synthesizing Cornejo Polar’s concept of heterogeneity with Westphal’s geocritical approach, the chapter devel…
Aj-ts’íib or el letrado ? Authorial Identity in Gómez Navarrete’s Bilingual Maya Poetry
Latin America is witnessing a revival in the literary production of indigenous languages, yet contemporary indigenous writers must often negotiate between different cultural understandings of what literature should be. The purpose of this article is to take one bilingual poem, composed in Yucatec Maya and Spanish, as a case study of the writerly conflict between the Maya paradigm of ts'íib and the 'Western' ideal of the letrado. The poem, written…
Cosmic narratology and human exceptionalism in Maya poetry: Villegas’ Yáax K’áak’ [Primordial Fire]
Since the last quarter of the twentieth century, a pioneering literary movement has taken root and flourished in the Yucatan Peninsula of southeast Mexico. The Maya Literary Renaissance (MLR) is part of a wider Latin American endeavour to revitalise indigenous languages still spoken today. The MLR is also an ecologically inspired movement given its significant focus on the nonhuman environment. This article examines the ecological significance of…
Maize and semiotic emergence in a contemporary Maya Tale: Tec Tun's,U tsikbalo'ob XNuk Nal[Tales of Old Mother Corn]
This article discusses a contemporary Maya story about the relationship between humanity and maize in the Yucatan Peninsula: José Manuel Tec Tun's, U tsikbalo’ob XNuk Nal / Los cuentos de la Abuela Mazorca [Tales of Old Mother Corn]. It argues that the story depicts a process that the recent biological field of biosemiotics terms “semiotic emergence” (Hoffmeyer): the evolution of higher stages of complexity through the interaction between previou…
The Last Inca: Hegemony and Abjection in an Andean Poetics of Discrimination
Popular dramatizations of the Incas' defeat by the Spaniards remain widespread across the central Andes. Most studies assume such dramatizations to be a form of resisting hegemony from "dominant" sectors of Peruvian society. This article proposes an alternative interpretation: Andean poetic "resistance" actually perpetuates the hegemonic discourse it attempts to resist. In order to prove this point, I advance one theoretical and one methodologica…
Ecological Ethics in Two Andean Songs
This is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from University of Nebraska Press via http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/ail.2014.0003 or from the publisher directly http://www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/product/Studies-in-American-Indian-Literatures,673235.aspx
The Lyrical Creation of Community: Song as a catalyst of social cohesion in Andean Peru
This article examines the performative role of waynu, a widespread song-genre in the Andes, in creating an "intersubjective community" among participants. The data-corpus comprises extracts from interviews which I conducted during a year's period of fieldwork (2010-2011) in Chiquián and Pomabamba, Ancash department, Peru. I couple my analysis of the extracts with congruent concepts in Quechua, the indigenous language, in order to show how indigen…
The Lyrical Creation of Community: Song as a catalyst of social cohesion in Andean Peru
This article examines the performative role of waynu, a widespread song-genre in the Andes, in creating an "intersubjective community" among participants. The data-corpus comprises extracts from interviews which I conducted during a year's period of fieldwork (2010-2011) in Chiquián and Pomabamba, Ancash department, Peru. I couple my analysis of the extracts with congruent concepts in Quechua, the indigenous language, in order to show how indigen…
The Lyrical Creation of Community: Song as a catalyst of social cohesion in Andean Peru
This article examines the performative role of waynu, a widespread song-genre in the Andes, in creating an "intersubjective community" among participants. The data-corpus comprises extracts from interviews which I conducted during a year's period of fieldwork (2010-2011) in Chiquián and Pomabamba, Ancash department, Peru. I couple my analysis of the extracts with congruent concepts in Quechua, the indigenous language, in order to show how indigen…
Ecological Ethics in Two Andean Songs
This is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from University of Nebraska Press via http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/ail.2014.0003 or from the publisher directly http://www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/product/Studies-in-American-Indian-Literatures,673235.aspx
The Last Inca: Hegemony and Abjection in an Andean Poetics of Discrimination
Popular dramatizations of the Incas' defeat by the Spaniards remain widespread across the central Andes. Most studies assume such dramatizations to be a form of resisting hegemony from "dominant" sectors of Peruvian society. This article proposes an alternative interpretation: Andean poetic "resistance" actually perpetuates the hegemonic discourse it attempts to resist. In order to prove this point, I advance one theoretical and one methodologica…
Maize and semiotic emergence in a contemporary Maya Tale: Tec Tun's,U tsikbalo'ob XNuk Nal[Tales of Old Mother Corn]
This article discusses a contemporary Maya story about the relationship between humanity and maize in the Yucatan Peninsula: José Manuel Tec Tun's, U tsikbalo’ob XNuk Nal / Los cuentos de la Abuela Mazorca [Tales of Old Mother Corn]. It argues that the story depicts a process that the recent biological field of biosemiotics terms “semiotic emergence” (Hoffmeyer): the evolution of higher stages of complexity through the interaction between previou…
Cosmic narratology and human exceptionalism in Maya poetry: Villegas’ Yáax K’áak’ [Primordial Fire]
Since the last quarter of the twentieth century, a pioneering literary movement has taken root and flourished in the Yucatan Peninsula of southeast Mexico. The Maya Literary Renaissance (MLR) is part of a wider Latin American endeavour to revitalise indigenous languages still spoken today. The MLR is also an ecologically inspired movement given its significant focus on the nonhuman environment. This article examines the ecological significance of…
Aj-ts’íib or el letrado ? Authorial Identity in Gómez Navarrete’s Bilingual Maya Poetry
Latin America is witnessing a revival in the literary production of indigenous languages, yet contemporary indigenous writers must often negotiate between different cultural understandings of what literature should be. The purpose of this article is to take one bilingual poem, composed in Yucatec Maya and Spanish, as a case study of the writerly conflict between the Maya paradigm of ts'íib and the 'Western' ideal of the letrado. The poem, written…
Landscapes of Heterogeneity in a Mid-Twentieth-Century Quechua Poem
This chapter discusses a bilingual poem in Quechua and Spanish by the twentieth-century Peruvian writer, Teodoro Meneses Morales (1915-87). It argues that the poem evinces a loss of solidarity between humanity and the wider cosmos and that this loss is the result of social, cultural, and environmental transitions occurring at the time. By synthesizing Cornejo Polar’s concept of heterogeneity with Westphal’s geocritical approach, the chapter devel…
Maize Landscapes in Indigenous Literatures: Toward Alternative Cartographic Imaginaries
The twentieth and twenty-first centuries have witnessed a literary revival in the Indigenous languages of the region known canonically as "Latin America." Across this varied corpus, a major theme is the cultural significance of maize. This article compares the depiction of maize in four bilingual poems, each written in a different Indigenous language alongside Spanish: Nahuatl (Ethel Xochitiotzin Pérez), Yucatec Maya (María Dolores Dzul Barboza),…
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