Blood lines : myth, indigenism, and Chicana/o literature / Sheila Marie Contreras.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Contreras, Sheila Marie.

Series:

Chicana matters series.

Chicana matters series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American literature--Mexican American authors--History and criticism.

American literature.

Literature and myth.

Mexican Americans in literature.

Indigenous peoples in literature.

Identity (Psychology) in literature.

Ethnology--Methodology.

Ethnology.

Cervantes, Lorna Dee--Criticism and interpretation.

Cervantes, Lorna Dee.

Anzaldúa, Gloria--Criticism and interpretation.

Anzaldúa, Gloria.

Alurista--Criticism and interpretation.

Alurista.

Villanueva, Alma, 1944---Criticism and interpretation.

Villanueva, Alma.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (233 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Austin : University of Texas Press, 2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Blood Lines: Myth, Indigenism, and Chicana/o Literature examines a broad array of texts that have contributed to the formation of an indigenous strand of Chicano cultural politics. In particular, this book exposes the ethnographic and poetic discourses that shaped the aesthetics and stylistics of Chicano nationalism and Chicana feminism. Contreras offers original perspectives on writers ranging from Alurista and Gloria Anzaldúa to Lorna Dee Cervantes and Alma Luz Villanueva, effectively marking the invocation of a Chicano indigeneity whose foundations and formulations can be linked to U.S. and British modernist writing. By highlighting intertextualities such as those between Anzaldúa and D. H. Lawrence, Contreras critiques the resilience of primitivism in the Mexican borderlands. She questions established cultural perspectives on "the native," which paradoxically challenge and reaffirm racialized representations of Indians in the Americas. In doing so, Blood Lines brings a new understanding to the contradictory and richly textured literary relationship that links the projects of European modernism and Anglo-American authors, on the one hand, and the imaginary of the post-revolutionary Mexican state and Chicano/a writers, on the other hand.

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.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. [187]-202) and index.

ISBN:

0-292-79405-3

OCLC:

646793554