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Blood lines : myth, indigenism, and Chicana/o literature / Sheila Marie Contreras.

Author/creator Contreras, Sheila Marie
Format Book and Print
Edition1st ed.
Publication InfoAustin : University of Texas Press, 2008.
Descriptionxi, 218 pages ; 24 cm.
Subject(s)
Cervantes, Lorna Dee--Criticism and interpretation.
Anzaldúa, Gloria--Criticism and interpretation.
Alurista--Criticism and interpretation.
Villanueva, Alma, 1944---Criticism and interpretation.
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.
Series Chicana matters series
Chicana matters series. ^A493624
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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [187]-202) and index.
LCCN 2007035061
ISBN9780292717961 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN0292717962 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN9780292717978 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN0292717970 (pbk. : alk. paper)

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