"In Letras y Limpias, Amanda V. Ellis analyzes depictions of the figure of the curandera, or folk healer, in foundational texts of Mexican American literature. It is the first full-length study to provide a literary history of representations that depict folk healing. In doing so, it argues tha...

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1. Verfasser:	Ellis, Amanda 1981- (VerfasserIn)
Format:	Buch
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	Tucson The University of Arizona Press [2021]
Schlagworte:	Literatur Heilerin > Motiv Chicanos Mexikanische Medizin USA American literature / Mexican American authors / History and criticism Mexican American women healers Traditional medicine / United States Healers in literature American literature / Mexican American authors Traditional medicine United States Criticism, interpretation, etc
Zusammenfassung:	"In Letras y Limpias, Amanda V. Ellis analyzes depictions of the figure of the curandera, or folk healer, in foundational texts of Mexican American literature. It is the first full-length study to provide a literary history of representations that depict folk healing. In doing so, it argues that curanderismo, and more specifically the figure of the curandera, throughout literature is a figurative watermark that personifies both the continuity and discontinuity among three disparate historical periods of the Mexican American literary archive (pre-Chicano Movement writing, Chicano Nationalist Movement writing, and Post-Chicano Nationalist Movement writing). Ellis argues that the persistence of this figure in Mexican American literary tradition is an act of decolonial discursive resistance that poses a call for holistic healing"--
Beschreibung:	xx, 270 Seiten Illustrationen 24 cm
ISBN:	9780816542680 9780816542741