Abstract

ORTEGA ARANGO, Óscar. The Literary Labyrinth of Contemporary Yucatecan Maya Female Poets. Estud. cult. maya [online]. 2013, vol.42, pp.145-167. ISSN 0185-2574.

This article approaches contemporary lyrical poetry written by Yucatan Maya women by discussing the literary contributions/continuities of the artistic manifestations inside the Mayan tradition and their differences with Western tradition. To do so the article begins with a reflection on the elements of study of indigenous literature that, in part, have been limited to the construction of literary analysis of a body of studies that allows one to observe the important transformations that, on a level of literary genres, come into being in such creative movements. The presence of female authors such as those that can be found supporting lyrical proposals that renew the Maya cultural tradition are notable but also discuss and reorient some elements of Western lyric.

Keywords : lyric; Maya; contemporary; gender; women.