Fray Angélico Chávez: Poet, Priest, and Artist

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CONTENTS p note from the series editor vii acknowledgments ix introduction 1 Ellen McCracken, ‘‘A Rose for Fray Angélico Chávez: Homage to New Mexico’s Foremost Twentieth-Century Humanist’’ I Historical Recovery 1. Marc Simmons, ‘‘Fray Angélico Chávez: The Making of a Maverick Historian’’ 11 2. Mario T. García, ‘‘Fray Angélico Chávez, Religiosity, and New Mexican Oppositional Historical Narrative’’ 25 3. Luis Leal, ‘‘La Conquistadora as History and Fictitious Autobiography’’ 37 II Culture of the Word and Image 4. Thomas J. Steele, S.J., ‘‘Wonders and Truths: The Short Stories of Fray Angélico Chávez’’ 47 5. Ellen McCracken, ‘‘Iconicity and Narrative in the Work of Fray Angélico Chávez: Toward the Harmonious Imagetext’’ 53 vi Contents 6. Manuel Martín-Rodríguez, ‘‘Painting the Word/Wording the Painting: Allegory and Intertextuality in The Virgin of Port Lligat by Fray Angélico Chávez’’ 91 7. Clark Colahan, ‘‘Recovering the Noble Spanish Soul’’ 101 III The Life of a Franciscan 8. Jack Clark Robinson, O.F.M., ‘‘Fray Angélico Chávez: The Roots of Franciscan Priesthood’’ 111 9. Murray Bodo, O.F.M., ‘‘The Saint Francis of Fray Angélico Chávez’’ 127 10. Thomas E. Chávez, ‘‘Memories of Fray Angélico Chávez’’ 135 contributors 143 bibliography of the works of fray angélico chávez 147 index 150 ...