Delgadillo Theresa Delgadillo

Spiritual Mestizaje (eBook, PDF)

Religion, Gender, Race, and Nation in Contemporary Chicana Narrative

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Gloria Anzaldua's narrative and theoretical innovations, particularly her concept of mestiza consciousness, have influenced critical thinking about colonialism, gender, history, language, religion, sexuality, spirituality, and subjectivity. Yet Anzaldua's theory of spiritual mestizaje has not been extensively studied until now. Taking up that task, Theresa Delgadillo reveals spiritual mestizaje as central to the queer feminist Chicana theorist's life and thought, and as a critical framework for interpreting contemporary Chicana literary and visual narratives. First mentioned by Anzaldua in her pioneering book Borderlands/La Frontera, spiritual mestizaje is a transformative process of excavating bodily memory to develop a radical, sustained critique of oppression and renew one's relation to the sacred. Delgadillo analyzes the role of spiritual mestizaje in Anzaldua's work and in relation to other forms of spirituality and theories of oppression. Illuminating the ways that contemporary Chicana narratives visualize, imagine, and enact Anzaldua's theory and method of spiritual mestizaje, Delgadillo interprets novels, memoir, and documentaries. Her critical reading of literary and visual technologies demonstrates how Chicanas challenge normative categories of gender, sexuality, nation, and race by depicting alternative visions of spirituality.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. August 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780822394365
• Artikelnr.: 54913752

Autorenporträt

Theresa Delgadillo is Professor of English and Chican@ and Latin@ Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
1. A Theory of Spiritual Mestizaje
2. Bodies of Knowledge
3. Sacred Fronteras
4. Border Secrets: Gender, Judaism, and Indigenous Worldviews in the
Americas
5. "Bad Religion"
Notes
Bibliography
Index