Yásnaya Elena A. Gil This Mouth Is Mine recensie, review en informatie over de inhoud van de het non-fictie boek van de Mexicaanse schrijfster. Op 17 september 2024 verschijnt bij Charco Press de Engelse vertaling van het boek van de uit Mexico afkomstige schrijfster en activistie Yásnaya Elena A. Gil. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van het boek, de schrijfster en over de uitgave. Een Nederlandse vertaling van de roman is niet verkrijgbaar.

Yásnaya Elena A. Gil This Mouth Is Mine recensie, review en informatie

• “This Mouth is Mine is an important reminder that the linguistic is political and that linguistic discrimination tends to intersect with racism. [The essays show that] indigenous languages are modern languages too, as suitable for writing rock lyrics, tweeting jokes, or explaining quantum physics.” (Times Literary Supplement)
• “With a remarkable sense of humor, Yásnaya takes us into the realm of our prejudices […] she questions us directly and wants us to respond, dialogues with us and invites us to investigate, to learn and to enjoy the diversity of the culture with which we coexist, in addition to igniting curiosity about our own languages.” (Revista de la Universidad de México)

This Mouth Is Mine

• Auteur: Yásnaya Elena A. Gil (Mexico)
• Soort boek: non-fictie
• Engelse vertaling: Ellen Jones
• Uitgever: Charco Press
• Verschijnt: 17 september 2024
• Omvang: 150 pagina’s
• Uitgave: paperback / ebook
• Boek bestellen bij:  Amazon / Bol

Flaptekst van het boek van de Mexicaanse schrijfster Yásnaya Elena A. Gil

Despite the more than 200 Indigenous languages spoken in Mexico, including 63 that are officially recognized and celebrated by the Mexican government, linguistic diversity is and has been under attack in a larger culture that says bilingual is good when it means Spanish and English, but bad when it means Nahuatl and Spanish.

Yásnaya Aguilar, a linguist and native Mixe speaker, asks what is lost, for everyone, when the contradictions inherent in Mexico’s relationship with its many Indigenous languages mean official protection and actual contempt at worst, and ignorance at best.

Personal, anecdotal, and full of vivid examples, Aguilar does more than advocate for the importance of resistance by native peoples: she offers everyone the opportunity to value and enjoy a world in which culture, language, and community is delighted in, not flattened. “We have sacrificed Mexico in favor of creating the idea of Mexico” she says. This Mouth Is Mine is an invitation to take it back.

Yásnaya Elena A. Gil (16 October 1981, Ayutla Mixe, Mexico) is one of Latin America’s leading defenders of linguistic rights. She is a member of COLMIX, a group of Mixe people dedicated to researching, communicating and promoting Mixe language, history and culture. She has collaborated in many projects relating to linguistic diversity, the development of grammar content for educational materials in indigenous languages, and projects documenting languages at risk of disappearance. She has helped develop written materials in Mixe as well as building readerships in Mixe and other indigenous languages. As an activist she has defended the linguistic rights of speakers of indigenous languages, and promoted their use online and in literary translation. Together with renowned Mexican actor and director Gael García Bernal, she has also co-presented a series of documentary films about environmental issues in Mexico.

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