Desirée A. Martín

Borderlands Saints: Secular Sanctity in Chicano/a and Mexican Culture

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Borderlands Saints examines the rise and fall of popular saints and saint-like figures in the borderlands of the United States and Mexico. Focusing specifically on Teresa Urrea (La Santa de Cabora), Pancho Villa, César Chávez, Subcomandante Marcos, and Santa Muerte, the book traces the intersections of these figures, their devotees, artistic representations, and dominant institutions with an eye for the ways in which such unofficial saints mirror traditional spiritual practices and serve specific cultural needs.

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Produktdetails

• Latinidad: Transnational Cultu
• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• None
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Altersempfehlung: ab 17 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Dezember 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 395g
• ISBN-13: 9780813562339
• ISBN-10: 0813562333
• Artikelnr.: 38058245

Autorenporträt

DESIRÉE A. MARTÍN is an assistant professor of English at the University of California, Davis.

Inhaltsangabe

 Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Secular Sanctity of Borderlands Saints
1. Saint of Contradictions: Teresa Urrea, La Santa de Cabora
2. The Remains of Pancho Villa
3. Canonizing César Chávez
4. "Todos Somos Santos": Subcomandante Marcos and the EZLN
5. Illegal Marginalizations: La Santísima Muerte
Conclusion: Narrative Devotion
Notes 
Works Cited
Index