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Author:

Contreras, Sheila Marie.

Title:

Blood lines : myth, indigenism, and Chicana/o literature / Sheila Marie Contreras.

Edition:

1st ed.

Publisher:

University of Texas Press,

Copyright Date:

2008

Description:

xi, 218 p. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

American literature--History and criticism--History and criticism
Literature and myth
Mexican Americans in literature
Indigenous peoples in literature
Cervantes, Lorna Dee--Criticism and interpretation.
Anzald©ða, Gloria--Criticism and interpretation.
Alurista--Criticism and interpretation.
Villanueva, Alma,--1944---Criticism and interpretation.
Identity (Psychology) in literature
Ethnology--Methodology

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [187]-202) and index.

Contents:

Introduction: Myths, indigenisms, and conquests -- Mexican myth and modern primitivism: D.H. Lawrence's The plumed serpent -- The Mesoamerican in the Mexican-American imagination: Chicano movement indigenism -- From La Malinche to Coatlicue: Chicana indigenist feminism and mythic native women -- The contra-mythic in Chicana literature: refashioning indigeneity in Acosta, Cervantes, Gaspar de Alba, and Villanueva.

Series:

Chicana matters series

ISBN:

0292717970 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780292717978 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0292717962 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780292717961 (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)167507067

LCCN:

2007035061

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)