Colonial Resist(Ink): An Examination of the Mexican “Sermones Aestivales”
White colonial power limits what can be known about indigenous peoples represented in the Mexican (Spanish) archive. The documents and manuscripts that survive from the colonial period in Mexico (1519-1821) tend to represent indigenous peoples as passive subjects, and it is important to consider whether they would have recognized themselves in such descriptions. As Stephanie Wood asks, “Would [indigenous communities] have embraced such identities? Or do these identities, grievously lacking in crucial elements, tell us…
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Toward a Black Girl Mythology: Radical Medievalisms in Donika Kelly’s Bestiary
Mythology stitches fascinating patterns into the tapestry of human experience. Every culture and generation has its own set of myths—sacred, secular, fictional, factual, about humankind, animals, nature—and despite how transcultural, translingual, and transtemporal these myths are, they have a universal appeal. It would be a Sisyphean task to try to explain the many functions for the creation and reinvention of myths; however, a good place to start is the role of mythology in shaping and…
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