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
Subject:	American literature -- Mexican American authors -- History and criticism. Mexican American women healers. Traditional medicine -- United States. Healers in literature. American literature -- Mexican American authors. Healers in literature. Mexican American women healers. Traditional medicine. United States. Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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"--

Table of 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

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