The Serpent's Plumes
Contemporary Nahua Flowered Words in Movement
Adam W. Coon
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The Serpent's Plumes
Contemporary Nahua Flowered Words in Movement
Adam W. Coon
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The Serpent's Plumes analyzes contemporary Nahua cultural production, principally bilingual Nahuatl-Spanish xochitlajtoli, or "poetry, " written from the 1980s to the present. Adam W. Coon draws on Nahua perspectives as a decolonizing theoretical framework to argue that Nahua writers deploy unique worldviews—namely, ixtlamatilistli ("knowledge with the face, " which highlights the value of personal experiences); yoltlajlamikilistli ("knowledge with the heart, " which underscores the importance of affective intelligence); and tlaixpan ("that which is in front, " which presents the past as lying ahead of a subject rather than behind). The views of ixtlamatilistli, yoltlajlamikilistli, and tlaixpan are key in Nahua struggles and effectively challenge those who attempt to marginalize Native knowledge production.