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Spiritual Mestizaje - Religion, Gender, Race, and Nation in Contemporary Chicana Narrative (Paperback)
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Spiritual Mestizaje - Religion, Gender, Race, and Nation in Contemporary Chicana Narrative (Paperback)
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Gloria Anzaldua's narrative and theoretical innovations,
particularly her concept of mestiza consciousness, have influenced
critical thinking about colonialism, gender, history, language,
religion, sexuality, spirituality, and subjectivity. Yet Anzaldua's
theory of spiritual mestizaje has not been extensively studied
until now. Taking up that task, Theresa Delgadillo reveals
spiritual mestizaje as central to the queer feminist Chicana
theorist's life and thought, and as a critical framework for
interpreting contemporary Chicana literary and visual narratives.
First mentioned by Anzaldua in her pioneering book "Borderlands/La
Frontera," spiritual mestizaje is a transformative process of
excavating bodily memory to develop a radical, sustained critique
of oppression and renew one's relation to the sacred. Delgadillo
analyzes the role of spiritual mestizaje in Anzaldua's work and in
relation to other forms of spirituality and theories of oppression.
Illuminating the ways that contemporary Chicana narratives
visualize, imagine, and enact Anzaldua's theory and method of
spiritual mestizaje, Delgadillo interprets novels, memoir, and
documentaries. Her critical reading of literary and visual
technologies demonstrates how Chicanas challenge normative
categories of gender, sexuality, nation, and race by depicting
alternative visions of spirituality.
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