Blood lines : myth, indigenism, and Chicana/o literature /
Contreras, Sheila Marie.
Austin, Tex. : University of Texas Press,
2008.
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.
Cervantes, Lorna Dee
Anzaldúa, Gloria
Alurista
Villanueva, Alma, 1944-
Anzaldúa
Cervantes
Villanueva
American literature
Literature and myth.
Mexican Americans in literature.
Indigenous peoples in literature.
Identity (Psychology) in literature.
Ethnology
Literatura norteamericana
Mito
Pueblos indígenas