This book examines the iconography of the Virgin of Guadalupe as a force for social justice and feminist emancipation within Chicana cultural productions from 1975 to 2010. In these productions the Virgin serves as a paradigm to unlock the histories...
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This book examines the iconography of the Virgin of Guadalupe as a force for social justice and feminist emancipation within Chicana cultural productions from 1975 to 2010. In these productions the Virgin serves as a paradigm to unlock the histories of conquest and colonization, racism, gender, and sexual oppression in the U.S.-Mexico borderland and beyond, and as a means to negotiate new social relations through spiritual mestizaje
Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of Illustrations; Series Editor's Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction: On the Treachery and Emancipatory Power of Chicana Iconographies; One Chicana Theory in the Flesh: A Bridge for the Transnational Feminist Movement; Two Nepantlismo, Chicana Approach to Colonial Ideology; Three Spiritualities of Dissent and Storytelling in Chicana Literature; Four Globalization and Chicana Politics of Representation; Five Queering the Sacred: Love as Oppositional Social Action
Six Conclusion: Globalizing Experiments of Western Thought, Patriarchal Christianity, and Environmental Wars in Chicana Sacred IconographiesNotes; Works Cited; Index