RT Book
T1 Of virgins, curanderas, and wrestler saints: un/doing religion in contemporary Mexican American literature
T2 Inter-American studies
JF Inter-American studies
A1 Schemien, Alexia
LA English
PP Trier
PB WVT Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier
YR 2018
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1645803759
AB "Virgins, home altars, curanderas, and saints -- Mexican American literature is replete with religious symbols. This study investigates the literary engagement with religious and spiritual practices in contemporary Mexican American narrative texts. It raises the question to what extent religion underlies other discourses on race, gender, and class" --
AB Introduction -- 2. Spiritual borderlands or a border of spirituality? -- 2.1. Border and inter-American studies -- 2.2. The spiritual borderlands -- 2.2.1 A brief history of the spiritual borderlands -- 2.2.2 Creating a literary Aztlán -- 2.3. Doing religion -- 3. Spirituality and gender -- 3.1. Ana Castillo's feminist vision in The guardians -- 3.2. Of weeping women and curanderas: Graciela Limón's The river flows North -- 3.3. Of wrestlers and saints: María Amparo Escandón's Esperanza's box of saints -- 4. Spirituality across generations -- 4.1. An American saint: Luis Alberto Urrea's The hummingbird's daughter -- 4.2. Of gothic tales and spiritual ancestry: Carmen Tafolla's "Tía" -- 5. Post-spirituality -- 5.1. Richard Rodriguez's Darling: a post-spiritual autobiography? -- 5.2. A cosmos of its own: Salvadola Scencia's The people of paper -- Conclusion
NO Dissertation erschienen unter dem Titel: Doing religion: the politics of spirituality in contemporary Mexican American literature
CN PS153.M4
SN 3-86821-724-X
SN 978-3-86821-724-7
SN 978-1-939743-22-0
K1 American fiction : Mexican American authors : History and criticism
K1 American fiction : 20th century : History and criticism
K1 Mexican American fiction (Spanish) : 20th century : History and criticism
K1 American literature : Mexican American authors : History and criticism
K1 Religion in literature
K1 Spirituality in literature
K1 Mexican Americans in literature
K1 Identity (Psychology) in literature
K1 Atzlán
K1 Hochschulschrift