Sacred Iconographies in Chicana Cultural Productions [electronic resource] /
Román-Odio, C.author.
This book examines the iconography of the Virgin of Guadalupe as a force for social justice and feminist emancipation within Chicana cultural productions from 1975-2010. In these productions the Virgin serves as a paradigm to unlock the histories of conquest and colonization, racism, and sexual oppression in the US-Mexico borderland and beyond.
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Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of Illustrations; Series Editor's Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction: On the Treachery and Emancipatory Power of Chicana Iconographies; One Chicana Theory in the Flesh: A Bridge for the Transnational Feminist Movement; Two Nepantlismo, Chicana Approach to Colonial Ideology; Three Spiritualities of Dissent and Storytelling in Chicana Literature; Four Globalization and Chicana Politics of Representation; Five Queering the Sacred: Love as Oppositional Social Action
Six Conclusion: Globalizing Experiments of Western Thought, Patriarchal Christianity, and Environmental Wars in Chicana Sacred IconographiesNotes; Works Cited; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
This book examines the iconography of the Virgin of Guadalupe as a force for social justice and feminist emancipation within Chicana cultural productions from 1975-2010. In these productions the Virgin serves as a paradigm to unlock the histories of conquest and colonization, racism, and sexual oppression in the US-Mexico borderland and beyond.
Sociology.
Literature.
Culture—Study and teaching.
Literature—History and criticism.
Cultural studies.
Ethnology.
Gender Studies.
Literature, general.
Cultural and Media Studies, general.
Literary History.
Cultural Studies.
Cultural Anthropology.