Identified only in 1986, the Nahuatl Holy Week play is the earliest known dramatic script in any Native American language. In Holy Wednesday, Louise Burkhart presents side-by-side English translations of the Nahuatl play and its Spanish source. An accompanying commentary analyzes the differences between the two versions to reveal how the native author altered the Spanish text to fit his own aesthetic sensibility and the broader discursive universe of the Nahua church. A richly detailed introduction places both works and their creators within the cultural and political contexts of late sixteenth-century Mexico and Spain.
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- ISBN10 0812215761
- ISBN13 9780812215762
- Publish Date 1 April 1996
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Imprint University of Pennsylvania Press
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Pages 328
- Language English