Sheila Marie Contreras

Blood Lines: Myth, Indigenism, and Chicana/O Literature

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Chicana Matters
• Verlag: Univ of Chicago Behalf of University of Texas
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: August 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 152mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 363g
• ISBN-13: 9780292717978
• ISBN-10: 0292717970
• Artikelnr.: 23410766

Autorenporträt

Sheila Marie Contreras is an Associate Professor at Michigan State University, where she teaches American Studies and Chicano/Latino Studies. She lives in Lansing.

Inhaltsangabe

* 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