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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 underlies other discourses on race, gender and class.
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.
Includes bibliographical references (pages [190]-204).