Item
Maya O Maya! Rambunctious Fables of Yucatan
- Title
- en_US Maya O Maya! Rambunctious Fables of Yucatan
- Description
- en_US Signed by Mitcham. #130 of 500
- en_US By Howard Mitcham
- Creator
- en_US Mitcham, Howard See all items with this value
- Contributor
- en_US Mitcham, Howard
- Date
- 2016-01-25T19:02:22Z
- en_US 1998-02
- en_US 1981
- Date Available
- 2016-01-25T19:02:22Z
- Date Issued
- en_US 1981
- Abstract
- en_US These are humorous parodies of ancient lore about gods, statues, and rites. The first, The World's Strongest Cocktail, presents Ixnib, the god who invented the drink balche. Besides being hallucingenic, the drink is a powerful emetic and purgative. Ixnib overdosed. Christian priests today still serve balche at Holy Communion--and services do not last long. The figures remind me of Mayan statues in museums and of Calder's line drawings. I think there is nothing here that has to do with fables. I have a queasy feeling as I read this book. Has political correctness and sensitivity changed so much in twenty years? This book seems to ridicule Mayan culture in a way we would not allow today. Amid the genial humor, there is also some that is sophomoric. The Mayans' atonal music was said to have been invented by an ancient Mayan named Arturo Strindberg.
- Identifier
- en_US 4018 (Access ID)
- Language
- en_US eng
- Publisher
- en_US The Hermit Crab Press
- en_US New Orleans, LA
- Subject
- en_US PN989.M4 M5 1981 See all items with this value
- en_US Howard Mitcham See all items with this value
- en_US Title Page Scanned See all items with this value
- Type
- en_US Book, Whole
- Item sets
- Carlson Fable Collection Books