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Letras y limpias : decolonial medicine and holistic healing in Mexican American literature /

"In Letras y Limpias, Amanda V. Ellis analyzes depictions of the figure of the curandera, or folk healer, in foundational texts of Mexican American literature. It is the first full-length study to provide a literary history of representations that depict folk healing. In doing so, it argues tha...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Ellis, Amanda, 1981- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Tucson : University of Arizona Press, 2021.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:"In Letras y Limpias, Amanda V. Ellis analyzes depictions of the figure of the curandera, or folk healer, in foundational texts of Mexican American literature. It is the first full-length study to provide a literary history of representations that depict folk healing. In doing so, it argues that curanderismo, and more specifically the figure of the curandera, throughout literature is a figurative watermark that personifies both the continuity and discontinuity among three disparate historical periods of the Mexican American literary archive (pre-Chicano Movement writing, Chicano Nationalist Movement writing, and Post-Chicano Nationalist Movement writing). Ellis argues that the persistence of this figure in Mexican American literary tradition is an act of decolonial discursive resistance that poses a call for holistic healing"--
Descripción Física:1 online resource (xx, 170 pages) : illustrations
ISBN:9780816544387
0816544387