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Blood lines myth, indigenism, and Chicana/o literature

Title
Blood lines [electronic resource] : myth, indigenism, and Chicana/o literature / Sheila Marie Contreras.
Author
Contreras, Sheila Marie.
Publication
Austin : University of Texas Press, 2008.

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Description
1 online resource (xi, 218 p.)
Series Statement
Chicana matters series
Uniform Title
Blood lines (Online)
Alternative Title
Blood lines (Online)
Subject
  • 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
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [187]-202) and index.
Access (note)
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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.
LCCN
2007035061
OCLC
ssj0000113247
Author
Contreras, Sheila Marie.
Title
Blood lines [electronic resource] : myth, indigenism, and Chicana/o literature / Sheila Marie Contreras.
Imprint
Austin : University of Texas Press, 2008.
Edition
1st ed.
Series
Chicana matters series
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. [187]-202) and index.
Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
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