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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

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Tutunakú: Language, Power and Youth in Central México

Tutunakú: Language, Power and Youth in Central México

Brandi, Lucia

Hardcover

Series: Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Cultures, Book 51

Literary CriticismLinguisticsGeneral Latin American History

ISBN10: 1839540044
ISBN13: 9781839540042
Publisher: Legenda
Published: Jul 29 2024
Pages: 258
Weight: 1.35
Height: 0.63 Width: 6.69 Depth: 9.61
Language: English

The diversity of Mexican Indigenous Linguistic cultures is a source of national pride. Today's speakers of the Tutunakú, or Totonac, languages are the inheritors of a tradition going back to the rise of the great city states of early Mesoamerica, whose art and monuments are widely celebrated. Yet Mexico's identity remains deeply embedded in the Spanish language, and public services such as education, healthcare and policing are highly revealing of this, often minoritising MIL-speakers even in central Mexican states where they are in the majority. Lucia Brandi works with today's Totonac speakers to deconstruct these effects, and to articulate the power of young people to situate their language in broader discourses of social justice and community wellbeing.

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