Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Epigraph
Contents
List of Illustrations
Preface: Listening to the Body
Acknowledgments
Introduction. Decolonial Healing Pathways: Tracing the Curandera’s Iteration and Perennial Return
PART I. CURATIVE RECOVERIES
1. Healing from the Moment of Conquest: Recovering Curative (Written) Roots
2. Modernity and Border Susto: Las Curanderas Simonita la Ciega and Anastacia Rendón
3. Prolific and Plural: The Aesthetic Healing Force of Curanderismo and the Key Figure of the Curandera
PART II. RADICAL REIMAGININGS
4. Post–Chicano Movement Chicana Feminist Aesthetics of Healing and Transformation / Border Arte as Medicine: Healing Beyond the Confines of the Skin
5. Boundless Limpia: The Curandera’s Healing Reach
6. The Poet-Curandera: Blood Sugar Canto’s Chicana Diabetic Poetics
Conclusion. The Curandera as Neoliberalism’s Persona Non Grata
Notes
Bibliography
Index
About the Author