An edition of Of virgins, curanderas, and wrestler saints
(2018)
Of virgins, curanderas, and wrestler saints
un/doing religion in contemporary Mexican American literature
by Alexia Schemien
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"Virgins, home altars, curanderas, and saints -- Mexican American literature is replete with religious symbols. This study investigates the literary engagement with religious and spiritual practices in contemporary Mexican American narrative texts. It raises the question to what extent religion underlies other discourses on race, gender, and class"--
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American fiction, Mexican American authors, History and criticism, Mexican American fiction (Spanish), American literature, Religion in literature, Spirituality in literature, Mexican Americans in literature, Identity (Psychology) in literature, Atzlán, Chicanos, Mexikaner, Religion, Roman, SpiritualitätPlaces
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Of virgins, curanderas, and wrestler saints: un/doing religion in contemporary Mexican American literature
2018, WVT, Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, Bilingual Press / Editorial Bilingué
in English
1939743222 9781939743220
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Table of Contents
Introduction
2. Spiritual borderlands
2.1. Border and inter-American studies
2.2. A brief history of the spiritual borderlands
2.3. Creating a cultural and literary Aztlán
2.4. Doing religion: politics and discourses
3. Spirituality and gender
3.1. Ana Castillo's feminist vision in The guardians
3.2. Of weeping women and curanderas: Graciela Limón's The river flows North
3.3. Of wrestlers and saints: María Amparo Escandón's Esperanza's box of saints
4. Spirituality, homeland and ancestry
4.1. An American saint: Luis Alberto Urrea's The hummingbird's daughter
4.2. Of gothic tales and spiritual ancestry: Carmen Tafolla's "Tía"
5. Post-spirituality and undoing religion
5.1. Richard Rodriguez's Darling: a post-spiritual autobiography?
5.2. A cosmos of its own: Salvador Plascencia's The people of paper
Conclusion.
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Includes bibliographical references.
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