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Borderlands saints : secular sanctity in Chicano/a and Mexican culture / / Desirée A. Martín



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Autore: Martín Desirée A. <1972-> Visualizza persona
Titolo: Borderlands saints : secular sanctity in Chicano/a and Mexican culture / / Desirée A. Martín Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: New Brunswick, New Jersey : , : Rutgers University Press, , [2014]
©2014
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (268 p.)
Disciplina: 810.9/868
Soggetto topico: American literature - Mexican American authors - History and criticism
Mexican American literature (Spanish) - History and criticism
Mexican literature - History and criticism
Secularism in literature
Holy, The, in literature
Heroes in literature
Soggetto geografico: Mexican-American Border Region Civilization
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: 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.
Sommario/riassunto: 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.
Titolo autorizzato: Borderlands saints  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-8135-6235-X
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910807748903321
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Serie: Latinidad.