03998nam 2200733 a 450 991081081030332120200520144314.00-292-79405-310.7560/717961(CKB)1000000000720623(OCoLC)646793554(CaPaEBR)ebrary10273726(SSID)ssj0000113247(PQKBManifestationID)11131425(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000113247(PQKBWorkID)10098645(PQKB)11189053(MiAaPQ)EBC3443355(OCoLC)309904326(MdBmJHUP)muse2338(Au-PeEL)EBL3443355(CaPaEBR)ebr10273726(DE-B1597)587191(OCoLC)1280943456(DE-B1597)9780292794054(EXLCZ)99100000000072062320070829d2008 ub 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrBlood lines myth, indigenism, and Chicana/o literature /Sheila Marie Contreras1st ed.Austin University of Texas Press20081 online resource (233 p.) Chicana matters seriesBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph0-292-71796-2 Includes bibliographical references (p. [187]-202) and index.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.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. In particular, this book exposes the ethnographic and poetic discourses that shaped the aesthetics and stylistics of Chicano nationalism and Chicana feminism. Contreras offers original perspectives on writers ranging from Alurista and Gloria Anzaldúa to Lorna Dee Cervantes and Alma Luz Villanueva, effectively marking the invocation of a Chicano indigeneity whose foundations and formulations can be linked to U.S. and British modernist writing. By highlighting intertextualities such as those between Anzaldúa and D. H. Lawrence, Contreras critiques the resilience of primitivism in the Mexican borderlands. She questions established cultural perspectives on "the native," which paradoxically challenge and reaffirm racialized representations of Indians in the Americas. In doing so, Blood Lines brings a new understanding to the contradictory and richly textured literary relationship that links the projects of European modernism and Anglo-American authors, on the one hand, and the imaginary of the post-revolutionary Mexican state and Chicano/a writers, on the other hand.Chicana matters series.American literatureMexican American authorsHistory and criticismLiterature and mythMexican Americans in literatureIndigenous peoples in literatureIdentity (Psychology) in literatureEthnologyMethodologyAmerican literatureMexican American authorsHistory and criticism.Literature and myth.Mexican Americans in literature.Indigenous peoples in literature.Identity (Psychology) in literature.EthnologyMethodology.810.9/37Contreras Sheila Marie1668699MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910810810303321Blood lines4029449UNINA