Title Blood lines : myth, indigenism, and Chicana/o literature / Sheila Marie Contreras

Edition 1st ed Published Austin : University of Texas Press, 2008

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 218 pages) Series Chicana matters series Chicana matters series. Contents Introduction: Myths, indigenisms, and conquests -- Mexican myth and modern primitivism: D.H. Lawrence's The plumed serpent -- The Mesoamerican in the Mexican-American imagination: Chicano movement indigenism -- From La Malinche to Coatlicue: Chicana indigenist feminism and mythic native women -- The contra-mythic in Chicana literature: refashioning indigeneity in Acosta, Cervantes, Gaspar de Alba, and Villanueva Summary Blood Lines: Myth, Indigenism, and Chicana/o Literature examines a broad array of texts that have contributed to the formation of an indigenous strand of Chicano cultural politics. Contreras offers original perspectives on writers ranging from Alurista and Gloria Anzaldúa to Lorna Dee Cervantes and Alma Luz Villanueva, effectively marking the invocation of a Chicano indigeneity whose foundations and formulations can be linked to U.S. and British modernist writing Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-202) and index Notes Print version record Subject Cervantes, Lorna Dee -- Criticism and interpretation Anzaldúa, Gloria -- Criticism and interpretation Alurista -- Criticism and interpretation Villanueva, Alma, 1944- -- Criticism and interpretation SUBJECT Alurista fast Anzaldúa, Gloria fast Cervantes, Lorna Dee fast Villanueva, Alma, 1944- fast Subject American literature -- Mexican American authors -- History and criticism Literature and myth. Mexican Americans in literature. Indigenous peoples in literature. Identity (Psychology) in literature. Ethnology -- Methodology. LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General. LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- Hispanic American. American literature -- Mexican American authors Ethnology -- Methodology Identity (Psychology) in literature Indigenous peoples in literature Literature and myth Mexican Americans in literature Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. Form Electronic book ISBN 9780292794054 0292794053

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