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  title info:
    title: Of virgins, curanderas, and wrestler saints
    sub title: un/doing religion in contemporary Mexican American literature
  name:
    name part: Schemien, Alexia
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2018
    copyright date: 2018
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 204 pages ; 22 cm.
  abstract: 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.
  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.
  note: Alexia Schemien.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages [190]-204).
  subject:
    geographic code: n-us---
    geographic code: n-mx---
  subject:
    topic: American fiction
    topic: Mexican American authors
    topic: History and criticism
  subject:
    topic: American fiction
    temporal: 20th century
    topic: History and criticism
  subject:
    topic: Mexican American fiction (Spanish)
    temporal: 20th century
    topic: History and criticism
  subject:
    topic: American literature
    topic: Mexican American authors
    topic: History and criticism
  subject:
    topic: Religion in literature
  subject:
    topic: Spirituality in literature
  subject:
    topic: Mexican Americans in literature
  subject:
    topic: Identity (Psychology) in literature
  subject:
    topic: Atzlán
  classification: PS153.M4 S38 2018
  classification: 810.9/86872
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Inter-American studies ; v. 21
  identifier: 9781939743220
  identifier: 1939743222
  identifier: 9783868217247
  identifier: 386821724X
  identifier: 2017052497
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 171226
    record change date: 20250308175633.0
    record identifier: in00004160943