Letras y Limpias : Decolonial Medicine and Holistic Healing in Mexican American Literature / Amanda V. Ellis.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ellis, Amanda V., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Mexican American women healers.

Traditional medicine--United States.

Healers in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (297 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Tucson, Arizona : University of Arizona Press, [2021]

Summary:

"In Letras y Limpias, Amanda V. Ellis analyzes depictions of the figure of the curandera, or folk healer, in foundational texts of Mexican American literature. It is the first full-length study to provide a literary history of representations that depict folk healing. In doing so, it argues that curanderismo, and more specifically the figure of the curandera, throughout literature is a figurative watermark that personifies both the continuity and discontinuity among three disparate historical periods of the Mexican American literary archive (pre-Chicano Movement writing, Chicano Nationalist Movement writing, and Post-Chicano Nationalist Movement writing). Ellis argues that the persistence of this figure in Mexican American literary tradition is an act of decolonial discursive resistance that poses a call for holistic healing"-- Provided by publisher.

Notes:

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-8165-4274-0

OCLC:

1259663592