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Borderlands Saints: Secular Sanctity in Chicano/a and Mexican Culture
Rutgers University Press, 2013 eISBN: 978-0-8135-7058-7 | Paper: 978-0-8135-6233-9 | Cloth: 978-0-8135-6234-6 Library of Congress Classification PQ7070.5.M37 2014 Dewey Decimal Classification 810.9868
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ABOUT THIS BOOK
Winner of the 2014 Latina/o Studies Section - LASA Outstanding Book Award 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. See other books on: Heroes in literature | Mexican American authors | Mexican literature | Mexican-American Border Region | Secularism in literature See other titles from Rutgers University Press |
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Borderlands Saints: Secular Sanctity in Chicano/a and Mexican Culture
ABOUT THIS BOOK | AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY | REVIEWS | TOC
Rutgers University Press, 2013
eISBN: 978-0-8135-7058-7
Paper: 978-0-8135-6233-9
Cloth: 978-0-8135-6234-6
eISBN: 978-0-8135-7058-7
Paper: 978-0-8135-6233-9
Cloth: 978-0-8135-6234-6
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.
ABOUT THIS BOOK | AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY | REVIEWS | TOC
