Blood lines myth, indigenism, and Chicana/o literature - Contreras, Sheila Marie; ebrary, Inc. (Austin : University of Texas Press, 2008)
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.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [187]-202) and index.
Electronic reproduction.
Keywords: Cervantes, Lorna Dee -- Criticism and interpretation; x; Alurista -- Criticism and interpretation; Villanueva, Alma, -- 1944- -- Criticism and interpretation; American literature -- Mexican American authors -- History and criticism; Literature and myth; Mexican Americans in literature; Indigenous peoples in literature; Identity (Psychology) in literature; Ethnology -- Methodology; Electronic books