How Colonization and Christianity Challenged Indigenous Maya Spirituality—and Failed
Emil’ Keme on the Popol Wuj, K’iche’ Authors, and Poetry as Resistance
July 12, 2021
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Emil’ Keme
Emil’ Keme (a.k.a., Emilio del Valle Escalante) is an Indigenous K’iche’ Maya scholar and associate professor of Spanish at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. He is author of Maya Nationalisms and Postcolonial Challenges in Guatemala. In 2020, he was awarded Cuba’s Casa de las Américas literary criticism prize for the Spanish version of Le Maya Q’atzij / Our Maya Word.
