Letras y limpias : decolonial medicine and holistic healing in Mexican American literature /

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Author / Creator:Ellis, Amanda, 1981- author.
Imprint:Tucson : The University of Arizona Press, [2021]
Description:xx, 170 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language:English
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Format: E-Resource Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12622912
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ISBN:9780816542741
0816542740
9780816542680
0816542686
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:"In Letras y Limpias, Amanda V. Ellis analyzes depictions of the figure of the curandera, or folk healer, in foundational texts of Mexican American literature. It is the first full-length study to provide a literary history of representations that depict folk healing. In doing so, it argues that curanderismo, and more specifically the figure of the curandera, throughout literature is a figurative watermark that personifies both the continuity and discontinuity among three disparate historical periods of the Mexican American literary archive (pre-Chicano Movement writing, Chicano Nationalist Movement writing, and Post-Chicano Nationalist Movement writing). Ellis argues that the persistence of this figure in Mexican American literary tradition is an act of decolonial discursive resistance that poses a call for holistic healing"--

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