04122nam 2200781 450 991045351190332120200520144314.00-8135-6235-X10.36019/9780813562353(CKB)2550000001166133(EBL)1573370(OCoLC)864748141(SSID)ssj0001060660(PQKBManifestationID)11634092(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001060660(PQKBWorkID)11087995(PQKB)10364990(MiAaPQ)EBC1573370(OCoLC)865184583(MdBmJHUP)muse27683(DE-B1597)526377(OCoLC)971313558(DE-B1597)9780813562353(Au-PeEL)EBL1573370(CaPaEBR)ebr10812126(CaONFJC)MIL547881(EXLCZ)99255000000116613320130226h20142014 uy| 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrBorderlands saints secular sanctity in Chicano/a and Mexican culture /Desirée A. MartínNew Brunswick, New Jersey :Rutgers University Press,[2014]©20141 online resource (268 p.)Latinidad: Transnational Cultures in the United StatesDescription based upon print version of record.0-8135-6234-1 1-306-16630-6 Includes bibliographical references and index.Introduction: The secular sanctity of borderlands saints -- Saint of contradiction: Teresa Urrea, La Santa de Cabora -- The remains of Pancho Villa -- Canonizing César Chávez -- Todos somos santos: Subcomandante Marcos and the EZLN -- Illegal marginalizations: La Santísima Muerte -- Conclusion: Narrative devotion.In Borderlands Saints, Desirée A. Martín examines the rise and fall of popular saints and saint-like figures in the borderlands of the United States and Mexico. Focusing specifically on Teresa Urrea (La Santa de Cabora), Pancho Villa, César Chávez, Subcomandante Marcos, and Santa Muerte, she traces the intersections of these figures, their devotees, artistic representations, and dominant institutions with an eye for the ways in which such unofficial saints mirror traditional spiritual practices and serve specific cultural needs. Popular spirituality of this kind engages the use and exchange of relics, faith healing, pilgrimages, and spirit possession, exemplifying the contradictions between high and popular culture, human and divine, and secular and sacred. Martín focuses upon a wide range of Mexican and Chicano/a cultural works drawn from the nineteenth century to the present, covering such diverse genres as the novel, the communiqué, drama, the essay or crónica, film, and contemporary digital media. She argues that spiritual practice is often represented as narrative, while narrative-whether literary, historical, visual, or oral-may modify or even function as devotional practice.Latinidad.American literatureMexican American authorsHistory and criticismMexican American literature (Spanish)History and criticismMexican literatureHistory and criticismSecularism in literatureHoly, The, in literatureHeroes in literatureMexican-American Border RegionCivilizationElectronic books.American literatureMexican American authorsHistory and criticism.Mexican American literature (Spanish)History and criticism.Mexican literatureHistory and criticism.Secularism in literature.Holy, The, in literature.Heroes in literature.810.9/868Martín Desirée A.1972-1046947MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910453511903321Borderlands saints2474237UNINA