A critique of time in two texts by Ak'abal and Jamioy

Abstract

This article proposes a critical reading of the nature of time based on textual proposals of Humberto Ak’abal, Maya K’iche’ poet, and Hugo Jamioy, Camëntsá writer. It is proposed that part of the contemporary environmental crisis is due to the separation of time and space, and of nature and culture, which is questioned from reflections and poetic images present in current indigenous oralituras and writings. Ak’abal and Jamioy question temporal impositions while articulating, through language, their own rhythms and enunciations in connection with their territories, memories and links, cultural reinventions.