Blood lines myth, indigenism, and Chicana/o literature / [electronic resource] :
Sheila Marie Contreras.
- 1st ed.
- Austin : University of Texas Press, 2008.
- xi, 218 p.
- Chicana matters series .
- Chicana matters series. .
Includes bibliographical references (p. [187]-202) and index.
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.
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
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Cervantes, Lorna Dee--Criticism and interpretation. Anzaldúa, Gloria--Criticism and interpretation. Alurista--Criticism and interpretation. Villanueva, Alma, 1944- --Criticism and interpretation.
American literature--Mexican American authors--History and criticism. Literature and myth. Mexican Americans in literature. Indigenous peoples in literature. Identity (Psychology) in literature. Ethnology--Methodology.