Contreras, Sheila Marie.

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.


Electronic books.

PS153.M4 / C67 2008

810.9/37