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Blood lines : myth, indigenism, and Chicana/o literature
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Blood lines : myth, indigenism, and Chicana/o literature

Author: Sheila Marie Contreras
Publisher: Austin : University of Texas Press, 2008.
Series: Chicana matters series.
Edition/Format:   Book : State or province government publication : English : 1st edView all editions and formats
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Examines an array of texts that have contributed to the formation of an indigenous strand of Chicano cultural politics. This book exposes the ethnographic and poetic discourses that shaped the  Read more...

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Named Person: Lorna Dee Cervantes; Gloria Anzaldúa; Alurista; Alma Villanueva; Anzaldúa; Cervantes; Villanueva
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 Read more...

 
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