2 options
Bandits, captives, heroines, and saints : cultural icons of Mexico's northwest borderlands / Robert McKee Irwin.
Table of contents only Available online
View online- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Irwin, Robert McKee, 1962-
- Series:
- Cultural studies of the Americas ; v. 20.
- Cultural studies of the Americas ; v. 20
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Symbolism.
- Popular culture.
- Historiography.
- Mexico, North--Historiography.
- Mexico, North.
- Mexican-American Border Region--Historiography.
- Mexican-American Border Region.
- Popular culture--Mexico, North.
- Popular culture--Mexican-American Border Region.
- Symbolism--Mexico, North.
- Mexico, North--In literature.
- North Mexico.
- Physical Description:
- xxvi, 331 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2007]
- Summary:
- Bandits, Captives, Heroines, and Saints investigates cultural icons of the late nineteenth century from Mexico's largely unstudied northwest borderlands: present-day Sonora, Baja California, and western Chihuahua. Robert McKee Irwin looks at popular figures such as Joaquin Murrieta, the gold rush social bandit; Lola Casanova, the anti-Malinche, whose marriage to a Seri Indian symbolized a forbidden form of mestizaje; and la Santa de Cabora, a young faith healer who inspired armed insurgencies and was exiled to Arizona.
- Cultural icons such as Murrieta, Lola Casanova, and la Santa de Cabora are products of intercultural dialogue, Irwin reveals, and their characterizations are unstable. They remain relevant for generations because there is no consensus regarding their meanings, and they are weapons in struggles of representation in the borderlands. The figures studied here are especially malleable, he argues, because they are marginalized from the mainstream of historiography. A timely analysis. Bandits, Captives, Heroines, and Saints challenges current paradigms of border studies and presents a rich understanding of the ways in which cultural icons influence people's minds and lives.
- Contents:
- The other borderlands
- The many heads and tales of Joaquín Murrieta
- Lola Casanova : tropes of mestizaje and frontiers of race
- The heroines of Guaymas
- Of sedition and spiritism : La Santa de Cabora
- Epiliogue : Cultural icons of the other borderlands.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [297]-319) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780816648566
- 0816648565
- 9780816648573
- 0816648573
- OCLC:
- 85783311
The Penn Libraries is committed to describing library materials using current, accurate, and responsible language. If you discover outdated or inaccurate language, please fill out this feedback form to report it and suggest alternative language.