Skip to content
You are not logged in |Login  
     
Limit search to available items
Record:   Prev Next
Resources
More Information
Bestseller
BestsellerE-book
Author Martín, Desirée A., 1972- author.

Title Borderlands Saints : Secular Sanctity in Chicano/a and Mexican Culture / Desirée A. Martín.

Publication Info. New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [2014]
©2014

Item Status

Description 1 online resource (x, 254 pages).
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Latinidad: Transnational Cultures in the United States
Latinidad: Transnational Cultures in the United States.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Introduction: The secular sanctity of borderlands saints -- Saint of contradiction: Teresa Urrea, La Santa de Cabora -- The remains of Pancho Villa -- Canonizing César Chávez -- Todos somos santos: Subcomandante Marcos and the EZLN -- Illegal marginalizations: La Santísima Muerte -- Conclusion: Narrative devotion.
Summary 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.
Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Subject American literature -- Mexican American authors -- History and criticism.
American literature -- Mexican American authors.
Mexican American literature (Spanish) -- History and criticism.
Mexican American literature (Spanish)
Mexican-American Border Region -- Civilization.
Mexican literature -- History and criticism.
Mexican literature.
Secularism in literature.
Secularism in literature.
Holy, The, in literature.
Holy, The, in literature.
Heroes in literature.
Heroes in literature.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Martín, Desirée A., 1972- Borderlands saints. New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, 2014 9780813562346 (DLC) 2013000429 (OCoLC)828682428
ISBN 9781461954002 (electronic book)
1461954002 (electronic book)
9780813562353 (electronic book)
081356235X (electronic book)
9780813562346
0813562341
9780813562339
0813562333
9781306166300 (MyiLibrary)
1306166306 (MyiLibrary)