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Borderlands Saints: Secular Sanctity in Chicano/a and Mexican Culture: Latinidad: Transnational Cultures in the United States

Autor Desirée A. Martín
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 18 dec 2013 – vârsta ani
Winner of the 2014 Latina/o Studies Section - LASA Outstanding Book Award

In Borderlands Saints, Desirée A. Martín examines the rise and fall of popular saints and saint-like figures in the borderlands of the United States and Mexico. Focusing specifically on Teresa Urrea (La Santa de Cabora), Pancho Villa, César Chávez, Subcomandante Marcos, and Santa Muerte, she traces the intersections of these figures, their devotees, artistic representations, and dominant institutions with an eye for the ways in which such unofficial saints mirror traditional spiritual practices and serve specific cultural needs.
Popular spirituality of this kind engages the use and exchange of relics, faith healing, pilgrimages, and spirit possession, exemplifying the contradictions between high and popular culture, human and divine, and secular and sacred. Martín focuses upon a wide range of Mexican and Chicano/a cultural works drawn from the nineteenth century to the present, covering such diverse genres as the novel, the communiqué, drama, the essay or crónica, film, and contemporary digital media. She argues that spiritual practice is often represented as narrative, while narrative—whether literary, historical, visual, or oral—may modify or even function as devotional practice.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780813562339
ISBN-10: 0813562333
Pagini: 296
Ilustrații: 5 illustrations
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.4 kg
Ediția:None
Editura: Rutgers University Press
Colecția Rutgers University Press
Seria Latinidad: Transnational Cultures in the United States


Notă biografică

DESIRÉE A. MARTÍN is an assistant professor of English at the University of California, Davis.

Cuprins

 Acknowledgments

Introduction: The Secular Sanctity of Borderlands Saints
1. Saint of Contradictions: Teresa Urrea, La Santa de Cabora
2. The Remains of Pancho Villa
3. Canonizing César Chávez
4. "Todos Somos Santos": Subcomandante Marcos and the EZLN
5. Illegal Marginalizations: La Santísima Muerte
Conclusion: Narrative Devotion

Notes 
Works Cited
Index

Recenzii

"Borderland Saints offers compelling portraits of popular and secular saints who exist unapologetically outside the realm of official church teaching."

"Addressing religion, spirituality and sanctity in Chicana/o culture, Borderlands Saints makesa significant contribution to a burgeoning area that demands critical attention."

"Through Martín’s incisive critical textual analysis we come to see the borderlands—and the exchange there between devotees and saints—as an important site for the performance of secular sanctity. Borderlands Saints is an invaluable contribution to border studies."

Descriere

Borderlands Saints examines the rise and fall of popular saints and saint-like figures in the borderlands of the United States and Mexico. Focusing specifically on Teresa Urrea (La Santa de Cabora), Pancho Villa, César Chávez, Subcomandante Marcos, and Santa Muerte, the book traces the intersections of these figures, their devotees, artistic representations, and dominant institutions with an eye for the ways in which such unofficial saints mirror traditional spiritual practices and serve specific cultural needs.