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From Patmos to the barrio : subverting imperial myths / David A. Sánchez.
Van Pelt Library BS2825.52 .S26 2008
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sánchez, David A. (David Arthur), 1960-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Bible. Revelation, XII--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Bible.
- Bible. Revelation, XII--Postcolonial criticism.
- Bible. Revelation, XII.
- Hispanic American theology.
- Postcolonial criticism of sacred works.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 209 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Minneapolis : Fortress Press, [2008]
- Summary:
- * A riveting cross-cultural analysis of imperial myths and their subversion * Color images of contemporary murals showing the power of the la Guadalupena in Chicana/o imagination and resistance today
- Contents:
- Subverting an imperial myth in first-century Asia Minor : the dragon slayer
- Subverting a conquista myth in seventeenth-century Mexico : the Virgin of Guadalupe
- Subverting millennial myths today : manifest destiny and el plan espiritual de Aztlán.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 182-204) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780800662608
- 0800662601
- 0800662598
- 9780800662592
- OCLC:
- 183392074
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