Description
Book SynopsisPlacing texts of Chicana/o indigenism and nationalism alongside European and Euro-American ethnographic, travel, and journalistic writing, this is the first comprehensive, comparative literary study of its kind.
Trade Review"Utterly fascinating and urgently needed. Contreras manages to achieve a sustained, insightful, and comprehensive analysis. This will surely be path-breaking [and] draw attention to a concept that has been heretofore relatively understudied. Her work fills an important lacunae that will unlikely be surpassed for some time." Louis Mendoza, Associate Professor and Chair, Department of Chicano Studies, University of Minnesota
Table of Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Prelude
- Introduction: Myths, Indigenisms, and Conquests
- Chapter One. Mexican Myth and Modern Primitivism: D. H. Lawrence's The Plumed Serpent
- Chapter Two. The Mesoamerican in the Mexican-American Imagination: Chicano Movement Indigenism
- Chapter Three. From La Malinche to Coatlicue: Chicana Indigenist Feminism and Mythic Native Women
- Chapter Four. The Contra-mythic in Chicana Literature: Refashioning Indigeneity in Acosta, Cervantes, Gaspar de Alba, and Villanueva
- Coda
- Notes
- Works Cited
- Index
