Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.