Introduction: On the Treachery and Emancipatory Power of Chicana Iconographies -- 1. Chicana Theory in the Flesh: A Bridgefor the Transnational Feminist Movement -- 2. "Nepantlismo", Chicana Approach to Colonial Ideology -- 3. Spiritualities of Dissent and Storytelling in Chicana Literature -- 4. Globalization and Chicana Politics of Representation -- 5. Queering the Sacred: Love as Oppositional Social Action -- Conclusion
Summary
This book examines the iconography of the Virgin of Guadalupe as a force for social justice and feminist emancipation within Chicana cultural productions from 1975 to 2010. In these productions the Virgin serves as a paradigm to unlock the histories of conquest and colonization, racism, gender, and sexual oppression in the U.S.-Mexico borderland and beyond, and as a means to negotiate new social relations through spiritual mestizaje