Blood lines : myth, indigenism, and Chicana/o literature /

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Blood Lines: Myth, Indigenism, and Chicana/o Literature examines a broad array of texts that have contributed to the formation of an indigenous strand of Chicano cultural politics. Contreras offers original perspectives on writers ranging from Alurista and Gloria Anzaldúa to Lorna Dee Cervantes and...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Contreras, Sheila Marie
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Austin : University of Texas Press, 2008.
Edition:1st ed.
Series:Chicana matters series.
Subjects:
Cervantes, Lorna Dee > Criticism and interpretation.
Anzaldúa, Gloria > Criticism and interpretation.
Alurista > Criticism and interpretation.
Villanueva, Alma, > 1944- > Criticism and interpretation.
Alurista
Anzaldúa, Gloria
Cervantes, Lorna Dee
Villanueva, Alma, > 1944-
American literature > Mexican American authors > History and criticism.
Literature and myth.
Mexican Americans in literature.
Indigenous peoples in literature.
Identity (Psychology) in literature.
Ethnology > Methodology.
Littérature américaine > Auteurs américains d'origine mexicaine > Histoire et critique.
Littérature et mythe.
Américains d'origine mexicaine dans la littérature.
Identité (Psychologie) dans la littérature.
Ethnologie > Méthodologie.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > Hispanic American.
American literature > Mexican American authors
Ethnology > Methodology
Identity (Psychology) in literature
Indigenous peoples in literature
Literature and myth
Mexican Americans in literature
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of 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.

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