Obsidian Mirror | Reflections on Mayan and Western Realities in Postcolonial Guatemala. This item is unavailable.Obsidian Mirror | Reflections on Mayan and Western Realities in Postcolonial Guatemala

This work explores the power of myth in post-colonial society and the relationship between the magical realist and realist genres in fiction. The particular focus is on the writings of Miguel Angel Asturias ? the Nobel Prize-winning Guatemalan author whose works first brought magical realism into Western literature. Asturias offered an early and powerful critique in a subtle and artistic form of the world-views that shape Central America: the Mayan and the Western. His critique has gone on to become a major literary form, one that arguably underpins much modern thinking on the connections between art and society. The work will be of interest to students of literature and of the culture of Central America, and be of value to anyone studying the relations between indigenous and Western ways of thought and the impacts on culture of colonisation.

Eva D?ews Thomson has a Bachelor of Arts (Honours), and has studied Literature, Creative Writing and Spanish at the University of Canberra, Canberra Australia.