Of virgins, curanderas, and wrestler saints: un/doing religion in contemporary Mexican American literature

"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...

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Subtitles:Religion in contemporary Mexican American literature
Main Author: Schemien, Alexia (Author)
Format: Print Book
Language:English
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Published: Trier WVT Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier [2018]
Tempe, AZ Bilingual Press / Editorial Bilingüe [2018]
In: Inter-American studies (Volume 21)
Year: 2018
Series/Journal:Inter-American studies Volume 21
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Mexico / English language / Chicanos / Novel / Religion (Motif) / Spirituality (Motif) / History 1999-2013
Further subjects:B American literature Mexican American authors History and criticism
B Religion in literature
B American fiction 20th century History and criticism
B Spirituality in literature
B Mexican Americans in literature
B Atzlán
B Mexican American fiction (Spanish) 20th century History and criticism
B American fiction Mexican American authors History and criticism
B Thesis
B Identity (Psychology) in literature
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520 |a "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" -- 
520 |a Introduction -- 2. Spiritual borderlands or a border of spirituality? -- 2.1. Border and inter-American studies -- 2.2. The spiritual borderlands -- 2.2.1 A brief history of the spiritual borderlands -- 2.2.2 Creating a literary Aztlán -- 2.3. Doing religion -- 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 across generations -- 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 -- 5.1. Richard Rodriguez's Darling: a post-spiritual autobiography? -- 5.2. A cosmos of its own: Salvadola Scencia's The people of paper -- Conclusion 
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