Ritual structures in Chicana fiction. ([2016])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Helane Androne.
• Authors: Androne, Helane Adams, 1972-
• Contents: Dedication; Acknowledgments; Contents; Chapter 1: Introduction; Locating Ritual Performance in Chicana Fiction; Notes; Works Cited; Chapter 2: "A Place from Where to Think": The Application of Ritual Criticism to Chicana Fiction; Positing Anzaldúan Rites; A Spiritual Vision for Chicana Fiction; Mestiza Consciousness and Loca-Centric Space; Notes; Works Cited; Chapter 3: Loca Malinalli: Centering the Spiritual in Ana Castillo's So Far From God; La Loca; Esperanza (Hope); Fe (Faith); Caridad (Charity); Death of a Community Christ; Notes; Works Cited. Chapter 4: "An Actress in a Play": Service as Sacred Performance in Denise Chávez's Face of an Angel; Soveida's Rite About Service; Death/Coatlicue and Nepantla: Gendering the Body That Serves; Transformation/La Faculdad: (W)Riting Service; Birth/Nahualismo: The Telling; Notes; Works Cited; Chapter 5: Reality Shifts: The Language of Nahuala in Sandra Cisneros' Caramelo, or Puro Cuento; The Structure of Nahual; Crossing Space, Switching Code; Matrilineal Multivocality and the Material Implications of the Sacred; Notes; Works Cited; Index.
• Publisher Details: New York : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2016
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 810.9/86872; American fiction -- Mexican American authors -- History and criticism; Ritual in literature; LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General; American fiction -- Mexican American authors; Ritual in literature; Electronic books; Criticism, interpretation, etc
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781137588548; 1137588543; 1137596708; 9781137596703
• Related ISBNs: 9781137596703; 1137596708
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed September 20, 2016).
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