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Blood lines myth, indigenism, and Chicana/o literature /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Contreras, Sheila Marie
Corporate Author:	ebrary, Inc
Format:	Electronic eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Austin : University of Texas Press, 2008.
Edition:	1st ed.
Series:	Chicana matters series.
Subjects:	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.
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Table of 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.