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Holy Wednesday: A Nahua Drama from Early Colonial Mexico

Holy Wednesday: A Nahua Drama from Early Colonial Mexico

Burkhart, Louise M.

Paperback

Series: New Cultural Studies

Literary CriticismMexican HistoryPlays

ISBN10: 0812215761
ISBN13: 9780812215762
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: Apr 1 1996
Pages: 328
Weight: 1.18
Height: 0.86 Width: 6.09 Depth: 9.03
Language: English
Identified only in 1986, the Nahuatl Holy Week play is the earliest known dramatic script in any Native American language. In Holy Wednesday, Louise Burkhart presents side-by-side English translations of the Nahuatl play and its Spanish source. An accompanying commentary analyzes the differences between the two versions to reveal how the native author altered the Spanish text to fit his own aesthetic sensibility and the broader discursive universe of the Nahua church. A richly detailed introduction places both works and their creators within the cultural and political contexts of late sixteenth-century Mexico and Spain.

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