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| Named Person: | Lorna Dee Cervantes; Gloria Anzaldúa; Alurista; Alma Villanueva; Anzaldúa; Cervantes; Villanueva |
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| Material Type: | Government publication, State or province government publication, Internet resource |
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Sheila Marie Contreras |
| ISBN: | 9780292717961 0292717962 9780292717978 0292717970 |
| OCLC Number: | 167507067 |
| Description: | xi, 218 p. ; 24 cm. |
| 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. |
| Series Title: | Chicana matters series. |
| Responsibility: | Sheila Marie Contreras. |
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"Utterly fascinating and urgently needed. Contreras manages to achieve a sustained, insightful, and comprehensive analysis. This will surely be path-breaking [and] draw attention to a concept that has been heretofore relatively understudied. Her work fills an important lacunae that will unlikely be surpassed for some time." Louis Mendoza, Associate Professor and Chair, Department of Chicano Studies, University of Minnesota Read more...
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- American literature -- Mexican American authors -- History and criticism.
- Literature and myth.
- Mexican Americans in literature.
- Indigenous peoples in literature.
- Cervantes, Lorna Dee -- Criticism and interpretation.
- Anzaldúa, Gloria -- Criticism and interpretation.
- Alurista -- Criticism and interpretation.
- Villanueva, Alma, -- 1944- -- Criticism and interpretation.
- Identity (Psychology) in literature.
- Ethnology -- Methodology.
- Literatura norteamericana -- Autores chicanos -- Historia y crítica.
- Mito -- En la literatura.
- Pueblos indígenas -- En la literatura.
- Anzaldúa -- Gloria -- Criticism and interpretation.
- Cervantes -- Lorna Dee -- Criticism and interpretation.
- Villanueva -- Alma -- 1944- -- Criticism and interpretation.
- Mythos <Motiv>
- Literatur.
- Chicanos.
- Identidad (Psicología) -- En la literatura.
- Mitología -- En la literatura.
- Chicanos -- En la literatura.
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