“How Corn Maiden Lost Her Corn,” as Told by Haciano Felipe to Karl Theodor Preuss
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21161077 |
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| Authors | James A Erekson (0000-0002-9767-2406, corresponding author), Erekson Erekson |
| Year | 2014 |
| Volume | 28 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 369 |
| Publication date | 2014-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Marvels & Tales (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1521-4281 • E-ISSN: 1536-1802 |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.13110/marvelstales.28.2.0369 |
| OpenAlex | W2062029656 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 13 |
Departing from motifs in well-known Corn Maiden stories, this Cora tale provides no account of the advent of maize horticulture. Instead, the story from Karl Theodor Preuss’s ethnology of Nayarit, Mexico, starts with a comic fool haplessly married to a demigod. The tale develops into a darker story of loss and compromise. Haciano Felipe, the verbal artist who told the story, is sublated by Preuss’s imperial-period methodology, which par¬allels losses in the Corn Maiden story itself. This translation crosses generations of copying, illustrating problems in the relationship between translator and “original.”
Art · Biology · Comics · Compromise · Copying · Literature · Social science · Sociology · History · Translation Studies and Practices
| Highly cited | No |
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