The Poetic Uses of Religion in The Miraculous Day of Amalia Gómez
It is surprising that so few historians of religions have ever tried to interpret a literary work from their own perspective. —Mircea Eliade. There are no gospels that are immortal, but neither is there any reason for believing that humanity is incapable of inventing new ones. —Emile Durkheim. Was t...
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Cambridge University Press
1999
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Religion and American culture
Year: 1999, Volume: 9, Issue: 2, Pages: 205-231 |
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| Summary: | It is surprising that so few historians of religions have ever tried to interpret a literary work from their own perspective. —Mircea Eliade. There are no gospels that are immortal, but neither is there any reason for believing that humanity is incapable of inventing new ones. —Emile Durkheim. Was that what God expected, that ritual of more pain? She thought of Milagros. Add this to all her miseries? Milagros yearned for less pain… . Was the old woman in veils courting something more with her crawling on bloodied knees—a miracle—by displaying her endurance for greater misery? —John Rechy. The past thirty years have been a watershed in Mexican American literature, witnessing the proliferation of texts with increasingly diverse themes. For the most part, this literary production has been motivated by the impulse to narrate the stories that typify Mexican cultural history in the United States. |
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| ISSN: | 1533-8568 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Religion and American culture
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1525/rac.1999.9.2.03a00040 |