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Author:

Schemien, Alexia author.

Title:

Of virgins, curanderas, and wrestler saints : un/doing religion in contemporary Mexican American literature / Alexia Schemien.

Publisher:

WVTWissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier ;

Copyright Date:

2018

Description:

204 pages ; 22 cm.

Subject:

American fiction--History and criticism.--History and criticism.
American fiction--20th century--History and criticism.
Mexican American fiction (Spanish)--20th century--History and criticism.
American literature--History and criticism.--History and criticism.
Religion in literature.
Spirituality in literature.
Mexican Americans in literature.
Identity (Psychology) in literature.
Atzlán.
American fiction.
American fiction--Mexican American authors.
American literature--Mexican American authors.
Identity (Psychology) in literature.
Mexican American fiction (Spanish)
Mexican Americans in literature.
Religion in literature.
Spirituality in literature.
Chicanos
Mexikaner
Religion--Motiv
Roman
Spiritualität--Motiv
USA
1900-1999
Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Contents:

Introduction -- 2. Spiritual borderlands or a border of spirituality? -- 2.1. Border and inter-American studies -- 2.2. The spiritual borderlands -- 2.2.1 A brief history of the spiritual borderlands -- 2.2.2 Creating a literary Aztlán -- 2.3. Doing religion -- 3. Spirituality and gender -- 3.1. Ana Castillo's feminist vision in The guardians -- 3.2. Of weeping women and curanderas: Graciela Limón's The river flows North -- 3.3. Of wrestlers and saints: María Amparo Escandón's Esperanza's box of saints -- 4. Spirituality across generations -- 4.1. An American saint: Luis Alberto Urrea's The hummingbird's daughter -- 4.2. Of gothic tales and spiritual ancestry: Carmen Tafolla's "Tía" -- 5. Post-spirituality -- 5.1. Richard Rodriguez's Darling: a post-spiritual autobiography? -- 5.2. A cosmos of its own: Salvadola Scencia's The people of paper -- Conclusion.

Summary:

"Virgins, home altars, curanderas, and saints -- Mexican American literature is replete with religious symbols. This study investigates the literary engagement with religious and spiritual practices in contemporary Mexican American narrative texts. It raises the question to what extent religion underlies other discourses on race, gender, and class"-- Provided by publisher.

Series:

Estudios interamericanos : culturas, sociedades, historia ; Estudios interamericanos : culturas, sociedades, historia ; volume 21

ISBN:

386821724X
9783868217247
1939743222
9781939743220

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1019835777

LCCN:

2017052497

Locations:

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