Blood Lines - Myth, Indigenism, and Chicana/o Literature

Informationen zum Autor Sheila Marie Contreras is an Associate Professor at Michigan State University, where she teaches American Studies and Chicano/Latino Studies. She lives in Lansing. Klappentext Placing texts of Chicana/o indigenism and nationalism alongside European and Euro-American ethnographic, travel, and journalistic writing, this is the first comprehensive, comparative literary study of its kind. Zusammenfassung Placing texts of Chicana/o indigenism and nationalism alongside European and Euro-American ethnographic, travel, and journalistic writing, this is the first comprehensive, comparative literary study of its kind. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments Prelude Introduction: Myths, Indigenisms, and Conquests Chapter One. Mexican Myth and Modern Primitivism: D. H. Lawrence's The Plumed Serpent Chapter Two. The Mesoamerican in the Mexican-American Imagination: Chicano Movement Indigenism Chapter Three. From La Malinche to Coatlicue: Chicana Indigenist Feminism and Mythic Native Women Chapter Four. The Contra-mythic in Chicana Literature: Refashioning Indigeneity in Acosta, Cervantes, Gaspar de Alba, and Villanueva Coda Notes Works Cited Index

Product details

• Authors: Sheila Marie Contreras
• Publisher: University Of Texas Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.07.2008
• EAN: 9780292717978
• ISBN: 978-0-292-71797-8
• No. of pages: 232
• Dimensions: 159 mm x 235 mm x 19 mm
• Series: Chicana Matters Series; Chicana Matters; Chicana Matters (Paperback); Chicana Matters
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies