Blood Lines: Myth, Indigenism, and Chicana/o Literature

Index

Index Acosta, Teresa Palomo: and Chicana/o indigeneity, 40; In the Season of Change, 134; Nile and Other Poems, 134; Passing Time, 134. See also “Preguntas y frases para una bisabuela española” (Acosta) Acuña, Rodolfo, 177n1 African Americans. See Blacks African art, 19 African masks, 16 Alarcón, Norma: on Coatlicue, 119; on indigeneity, 121; on La Malinche , 107, 110, 112, 181n4, 182nn8, 9, 12; on the Native woman, 103, 105, 106, 120, 121, 157, 181n3; on neo-nationalism, 183n18; on Shadow-Beast, 121; “Traddutora, Traditora,” 181nn3, 4 alchemy, 43–44 Aldama, Arturo, 182n15 Almaguer, Tomás, 171n31 Althusser, Louis, 13–14 Alurista: academic background of, 164; and American Indians, 180n40; and Anzaldúa, 38; and Aztec and Maya cosmogony, 14, 103; and Aztec myth, 94–95, 103, 112, 161; and Aztlán, 30, 72–73, 80, 97, 100–101; “Aztlán: Reality or Myth,” 95–97; and Chicana/o indigenist nationalism, 98–102, 183n18; and Indigenous ancestry, 31, 39, 95–96, 98, 101–102, 103; Chicano Studies, 96; Dawn, 39, 97–98; Floricanto en Aztlán, 31; Nationchild Plumaroja, 31, 95, 98, 99, 100; “El Plan de Aztlán” preamble, 31, 39, 72–73, 94, 98–102 Alva Ixtlilxóchitl, Fernando de, 170n20 Alvarado Tezozómoc, Hernando de, 168n3, 170n20 American Indian Movement (aiM), 99, 100, 102 American Indians: activism of, 99, 100, 101–102; and Alurista, 180n40; Chicanas/os’ relationship to, 113, 183n16; and land rights, 40, 101, 102; Lawrence on, 50–51; occupation of U.S. Southwest and West, 185n6; use of term, 41 American literature, 184–185n3 American Museum of Natural History , 22 Analco, 30 anarchist movements, 16–17 Anaya, Rudolfo A., 177n4 Anglo-American hegemony, 86, 96 anthropological discourse: and Chicana /o literary indigenism, 11, 14, 37, 164; and historical processes of de-Indianization, 27; and indigenism , 27, 29, 161; and myth, 11–13; and Oaxaca, 152 204 Blood Lines anthropological narratives: and Anzaldúa, 116, 126, 131; of Aztecs, 113; and del Castillo, 131; and literary primitivism, 15; of preColumbian artifacts, 118; production of, 10 anti-nationalism, 115 Anzaldúa, Gloria: academic background of, 164; and Aztec myth, 112, 161; and Aztec priesthood, 111; on Coatlicue, 98, 106, 113, 117, 118, 120, 183n18; on Coatlicue statue, 14, 15, 117–118, 164; and Coyolxauhqui , 181n2; and feminized Aztec mythos, 38; on Huitzilopochtli , 106, 111, 183n18; indigenism questioned, 183n16. See also Borderlands/La Frontera (Anzaldúa) Apollinaire, Guillaume, 169n9 archaeological narratives: and Anzaldúa, 119, 125, 126, 127, 128, 130; and Chicana/o literary indigenism , 37, 164; and literary primitivism, 15, 123; and preColumbian Mesoamerica, 20, 22, 78, 126, 161; and pre-Columbian serpent figures, 43; production of, 10 archaeology: museums housing knowledge of, 21; and preservation of images of goddesses and gods, 17 Armstrong, Nancy, 142 Arteaga, Alfred, 116, 143 Arte Público Press, 85, 136 art history: and Anzaldúa, 130; and Chicana/o literary indigenism , 37; and infantilization of Native peoples, 176n33; and preColumbian artifacts, 118; and primitivism, 15–16, 17, 169n5 Aztec artifacts: formal complexity of, 19; and Gauguin and Van Gogh, 20; and Henry Moore, 22; and reconstruction of national history, 3–4. See also pre-Columbian artifacts Aztec codices, 10, 31 Aztec moments, 2, 3, 5 Aztec Palace, 20, 169n13 Aztecs: belief structures of, 98; calendrical system of, 95; and Chicana/o indigenism, 5–6, 113; and Chicano movement politics, 74, 77, 80, 108; Conquest-era representations of, 110–111; conquest of, 5, 19; Gaspar de Alba’s feminizing of, 154–158; human sacrifice associated with, 56, 57, 67, 68, 75, 76, 77, 90, 111, 175n28; Keen on, 78–79, 80; and La Malinche, 112, 182n7; and mestiza /o identity, 2–3; mythic systems of, 79, 85, 87, 88, 90–92, 97, 113, 116–117, 119, 120, 123–124, 127; and narrative of omens, 79, 111, 178n18, 182n11; origin of term, 168n5; palimpsestic quality of religion, 82; peregrination narrative, 37, 72, 101; Prescott on, 176n35; priests of, 90, 91–92, 106, 111. See also specific deities Aztlán: and altepetl, 73; and Alurista, 30, 72–73, 80, 97, 100–101; Carrasco on, 4–5, 73; and Chicana/o indigenism, 30–33, 37, 71–78; Forbes on, 30, 31, 170n23; and Indigenist descent, 101; and nationalist consciousness, 103; as palimpsest , 73; and “El Plan de Aztlán,” 98; Pratt on, 14–15; reclamation of territory, 33, 95; and Rendon, 72, 80–81, 82 Baldwin, Neil, 11, 43 La Bamba (1987), 84 Barbados Declaration, 29 Barbados Symposium, 29 Barnet-S...