Letras y limpias : decolonial medicine and holistic healing in Mexican American literature /
"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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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Tucson :
University of Arizona Press,
2021
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| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
| Summary: | "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"-- |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xx, 170 pages) : illustrations |
| ISBN: | 9780816544387 0816544387 |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on July 15, 2021). |
