The allure of Nezahualcoyotl [electronic resource] : pre-Hispanic history, religion, and Nahua poetics / Jongsoo Lee.

By:

Lee, Jongsoo, 1964-

Publication details: Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 2008.Description: 1 online resource (xii, 282 p.) : ill., mapsISBN:

9780826343390 (electronic bk.)
0826343392 (electronic bk.)

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Electronic books.

Additional physical formats: Print version:: Allure of Nezahualcoyotl.DDC classification:

972/.018 22

LOC classification:

F1219.75.N49 L44 2008eb

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Contents:

The sources, colonial ideology, and Texcoca regionalism -- Founding the Texcoca dynasty: Chichimec Xolotl and Toltec Topiltzin Quetzalcoatl -- Revisiting pre-Hispanic Central Mexico: Texcoca reality before Nezahualcoyotl -- Reexamining Nezahualcoyotl's Texcoco: politics, government, and legal system -- Nezahualcoyotl and the notion of individual authorship in Nahua poetry -- A reinterpretation of Nahua poetics: Nahua cosmogony, Nahua songs, and Nezahualcoyotl -- A reinterpretation of Nahua poetic themes: ephemerality, war and sacrifice, and Nezahualcoyotl -- The Westernization of Nahua religion: Nezahualcoyotl's unknown god -- Conclusion -- Epilogue: Nezahualcoyotl and the irony of colonialism in Ernesto Cardenal's poetry.

Summary: Presents a new disuccion of fifteenth-century "poet-king" Nezahualcoyotl that examines original Nahuatl writings in conjunction with Spanish chronicles to present a revised biographical portrait of the Aztec figure.

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 260-270) and index.

Presents a new disuccion of fifteenth-century "poet-king" Nezahualcoyotl that examines original Nahuatl writings in conjunction with Spanish chronicles to present a revised biographical portrait of the Aztec figure.