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Record Nr.

UNINA9910453909403321

Autore

Contreras Sheila Marie

Titolo

Blood lines [[electronic resource] ] : myth, indigenism, and Chicana/o literature / / Sheila Marie Contreras

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Austin, : University of Texas Press, 2008

ISBN

0-292-79405-3

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (233 p.)

Collana

Chicana matters series

Disciplina

810.9/37

Soggetti

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

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

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

Nota di contenuto

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.