Blood lines : myth, indigenism, and Chicana/o literature /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Contreras, Sheila Marie
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Austin : University of Texas Press, 2008.
Edition:	1st ed.
Subjects:	Ethnology > Methodology. Identity (Psychology) in literature. Indigenous peoples in literature. Mexican Americans in literature. Literature and myth. American literature > Mexican American authors > History and criticism. Villanueva, Alma, > 1944- > Criticism and interpretation. Alurista > Criticism and interpretation. Anzaldúa, Gloria > Criticism and interpretation. Cervantes, Lorna Dee > Criticism and interpretation. Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:

Introduction: Myths, indigenisms, and conquests
Mexican myth and modern primitivism: D.H. Lawrence's The plumed serpent
The Mesoamerican in the Mexican-American imagination: Chicano movement indigenism
From La Malinche to Coatlicue: Chicana indigenist feminism and mythic native women
The contra-mythic in Chicana literature: refashioning indigeneity in Acosta, Cervantes, Gaspar de Alba, and Villanueva.