"Worley and Palacios champion Maya cultural traditions and narratives, performing a scholarly, engaged activism that not only exemplifies ways in which to perform such work, but also highlights Maya creators' political and social activism."--Paula L. Karger, The Latin Americanist " Unwriting Maya Literature indicate(s) that the area of indigenous literary studies is doing important work to change academia from the inside out."--Julia Brown, Chasqui "In Unwriting Maya Literature Paul M. Worley and Rita M. Palacios challenge the dominant methods in the study of literature of the panMaya world and advance a decolonial model for understanding Maya cultural production."--Sarah Alice Campbell, Bulletin of Latin American Research "This timely and groundbreaking book provides an important decolonial framework for the study of Maya and Indigenous texts." --Alicia Ivonne Estrada, California State University, Northridge "This book is an original contribution to Maya, Indigenous, Latin American, and literary studies.

The authors produce generative readings and insightful analyses of Maya cultural productions--whether textiles or poetry--from across the Maya region, moving beyond nation-state borders."--Gloria Elizabeth Chacón, University of California, San Diego "Without doubt, Worley and Palacios's book makes critically key contributions to the fields of literary criticism and Native American and Indigenous studies. Its theoretical value and methodological approaches can also apply across multiple fields and disciplines. This book must be required for any scholar and student specializing in literature in general, as well as those specializing in Native American and Indigenous studies. This book is also suitable for any reader who wants to understand ts'íib as an alternative way of producing and recording art and knowledge from a Mayan artistic creative perspective."--Jaime Pérez González, Native American and Indigenous Studies.