Blood lines : myth, indigenism, and Chicana/o literature
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Blood lines : myth, indigenism, and Chicana/o literature
（Chicana matters series）
University of Texas Press, 2008
1st ed
- : pbk
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Bibliography: p. [187]-202
Includes index
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Description
Runner-up, Modern Language Association Prize in United States Latina and Latino and Chicana and Chicano Literary and Cultural Studies, 2009 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 Anzaldua 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 Anzaldua 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.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments Prelude Introduction: Myths, Indigenisms, and Conquests Chapter One Mexican Myth and Modern Primitivism: D. H. Lawrence's The Plumed Serpent Chapter Two The Mesoamerican in the Mexican-American Imagination: Chicano Movement Indigenism Chapter Three From La Malinche to Coatlicue: Chicana Indigenist Feminism and Mythic Native Women Chapter Four The Contra-mythic in Chicana Literature: Refashioning Indigeneity in Acosta, Cervantes, Gaspar de Alba, and Villanueva Coda Notes Works Cited Index
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