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

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Contents Acknowledgments ix Prelude 1 Introduction: Myths, Indigenisms, and Conquests 9 1. Mexican Myth and Modern Primitivism: D. H. Lawrence’s The Plumed Serpent 43 2. The Mesoamerican in the Mexican-American Imagination: Chicano Movement Indigenism 71 3. From La Malinche to Coatlicue: Chicana Indigenist Feminism and Mythic Native Women 105 4. The Contra-mythic in Chicana Literature: Refashioning Indigeneity in Acosta, Cervantes, Gaspar de Alba, and Villanueva 133 Coda 163 Notes 167 Works Cited 187 Index 203 THIS PAGE INTENTIONALLY LEFT BLANK ...