Blood Lines : : Myth, Indigenism, and Chicana/o Literature / / Sheila Marie Contreras.

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. In particular, this book exposes the ethnographic and poetic discourses that shaped the aesthetics and stylistics of Ch...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Texas Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
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Place / Publishing House:Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021]
©2008
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
Series:Chicana Matters
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Physical Description:1 online resource (232 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Prelude
  • Introduction Myths, Indigenisms, and Conquests
  • Chapter 1 Mexican Myth and Modern Primitivism: D. H. Lawrence’s The Plumed Serpent
  • Chapter 2 The Mesoamerican in the Mexican-American Imagination: Chicano Movement Indigenism
  • Chapter 3 From La Malinche to Coatlicue: Chicana Indigenist Feminism and Mythic Native Women
  • Chapter 4 The Contra-mythic in Chicana Literature: Refashioning Indigeneity in Acosta, Cervantes, Gaspar de Alba, and Villanueva
  • Coda
  • Notes
  • Works Cited
  • Index