From Patmos to the barrio
Subtitle: subverting imperial myths
By: by David Arthur Sánchez.
Publisher: Fortress Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Minneapolis, MN
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780800662608
Subjects: Bible. -- N.T. -- Revelation XII -- Criticism, interpretation, etc; Bible. -- N.T. -- Revelation XII -- Postcolonial criticism; Hispanic American theology
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The Jewish and Christian subversion of the Roman imperial dragon slayer myth; title: The seventeenth-century creole subversion of the pre-conquest Spanish Guadalupe myth; title: The twentieth-century Chicana/o movement's subversion of the United States' myth of manifest destiny; title: Postcolonial analysis and conclusion.