This Mouth is Mine
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This Mouth is Mine

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This Mouth is Mine

About this book

A warm, witty, passionate cry for living, vital, indigenous languages and the people who speak them.

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.What does it mean to have a prize for Indigenous literature when different Indigenous languages are as far from each other as they are from Japanese? What impact does considering Tzotzil "cultural heritage" have on our idea of it, when it is still being used, and refreshed, and changed (like every other language) today? How does the idea of Indigeneity stand up, when you consider Indigenous peoples outside of the frame of colonialism?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.

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Yes, you can access This Mouth is Mine by Yásnaya Aguilar,Yásnaya Elena A. Gil, Ellen Jones in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Languages & Linguistics & Social Science Biographies. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Table of contents

  1. This Mouth is Mine
  2. PROLOGUE
  3. THE ORIGINAL TEXTS, THE VOICE AND THE VOICES: INTRODUCTION – TO BE READ AT THE END
  4. WRITTEN LANGUAGE, TYPED LANGUAGE
  5. TO BE OR NOT TO BE?: BILINGUALISMS
  6. THE CENSORING OF BABEL
  7. THE RINGING OF BELLS: TWO ENCOUNTERS WITH THE LANGUAGE OF THE OTHER
  8. HABITS OF SPEECH
  9. INDIGENOUS LANGUAGES WRITE THEIR LETTER TO THE THREE WISE MEN
  10. AYUUJK: SO LINGUISTIC DIVERSITY HAS A GREAT FUTURE AHEAD OF IT? TIME, SPACE AND METAPHORS
  11. DO I SPEAK MIXE OR AYUUJK? ON THE NAMING AND SELF-DESIGNATION OF INDIGENOUS LANGUAGES AND PEOPLES
  12. PRIDE AND PREJUDICES
  13. INDIGENOUS LITERATURE DOES NOT EXIST
  14. HAHAHATL: NO LAUGHING MATTER?
  15. PART II: WHEN BRIDGES STOP BEING BUILT
  16. SLAVERY AND THE GENESIS OF CREOLE LANGUAGES
  17. WHEN BRIDGES STOP BEING BUILT
  18. CASSANDRA AND LANGUAGE DEATH
  19. LET LANGUAGES DIE IN PEACE
  20. LINGUISTIC PARANOIAS
  21. TEST: ARE YOU PREJUDICED AGAINST INDIGENOUS LANGUAGES?
  22. TEST: ARE YOU PREJUDICED AGAINST INDIGENOUS LANGUAGES?
  23. BORDERS, WHY BORDERS?
  24. ON CHAIROS, THE LEFT AND INDIGENOUS PEOPLE
  25. AYUUJK: ALL BECAUSE THEY DIDN’T SPEAK SPANISH
  26. INDIGENOUS EDUCATION IN SPANISH?
  27. THE MEANINGS OF PAIN AND LINGUISTIC DIVERSITY
  28. A PSYCHOLOGICAL AND SOCIAL EXPERIMENT:
  29. A SOLDIER IN EVERY SON?
  30. CUT OUT THEIR TONGUES
  31. IS IT WORTH PROMOTING THE USE OF INDIGENOUS LANGUAGES?
  32. PART III: WHAT SHALL WE CALL HER, MATARILERILERÓ?
  33. DOES LINGUISTIC ACTIVISM EXIST IN MEXICO?
  34. WHAT SHALL WE CALL HER, MATARILERILERÓ?
  35. NEWSPAPERS AND MAGAZINES IN INDIGENOUS LANGUAGES?
  36. MULTILINGUAL FIREFOX
  37. EVERYDAY ACTION TO PROMOTE LINGUISTIC DIVERSITY FOR SPANISH SPEAKERS
  38. MAXU’NK: DUÉRMASE MI NIÑO, DUÉRMASEME YA
  39. ROCK IN YOUR LANGUAGE: MULTILINGUAL JUKEBOX
  40. WRITTEN LANDSCAPES
  41. THE DELICACIES OF THE POST-BABEL WORLD
  42. SPEECH AS AN ACT OF RESISTENCE: JAMYATS
  43. SPEECH TO THE CHAMBER OF DEPUTIES
  44. NËWEMP, JA NËËJ JËTS JA ÄÄ AYUUJK
  45. MEXICO: THE WATER AND THE WORD
  46. A RETURN VISIT: EPILOGUE
  47. Note on the Translation