Ritual structures in Chicana fiction
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Ritual structures in Chicana fiction
（Literatures of the Americas）（Palgrave pivot）
Palgrave Macmillan, c2016
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Description
This book argues for the necessary and further examination of the sacred as it is ritualized within Chicana fiction. It suggests that religious, spiritual, linguistic and political symbolisms reveal rites that structure narrative performances of coping with and healing from trauma. Helane Androne examines these rites of spirit, service, and story as they occur in Ana Castillo's So Far From God, Denise Chavez's Face of An Angel, and Sandra Cisneros' Caramelo. Beginning with the implications of Gloria Anzaldua's spiritual vision of Chicana identity alongside structural principles of ritual criticism, this study extends the discourse about the impact of the sacred in Chicana fiction. an>
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Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1 "A Place from where to think":
The work of ritual criticism on Chicana fiction
Chapter 2 Loca Malinalli:
Centering the Spiritual in Ana Castillo's So Far From God
Chapter 3 '...an actress in a play': Service as Sacred Performance in Denise Chavez's Face of an Angel
Chapter 4 Reality Shifts: The Language of Nahuala in Sandra Cisneros' Caramelo, or Puro Cuento
Index
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