{"product_id":"blood-lines-sheila-marie-contreras-9780292717978","title":"Blood Lines: Myth, Indigenism, and Chicana\/O Literature","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e2009 -- Runner-up, Modern Language Association Prize in United States Latina and Latino and Chicana and Chicano Literary and Cultural Studies\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eBlood Lines: Myth, Indigenism, and Chicana\/o Literature\u003c\/i\u003e examines a broad array of texts that have contributed to the formation of an indigenous strand of Chicano cultural politics. In particular, this book exposes the ethnographic and poetic discourses that shaped the aesthetics and stylistics of Chicano nationalism and Chicana feminism. Contreras offers original perspectives on writers ranging from Alurista and Gloria Anzald俉 to Lorna Dee Cervantes and Alma Luz Villanueva, effectively marking the invocation of a Chicano indigeneity whose foundations and formulations can be linked to U.S. and British modernist writing. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e By highlighting intertextualities such as those between Anzald俉 and D. H. Lawrence, Contreras critiques the resilience of primitivism in the Mexican borderlands. She questions established cultural perspectives on \"the native,\" which paradoxically challenge and reaffirm racialized representations of Indians in the Americas. In doing so, \u003ci\u003eBlood Lines\u003c\/i\u003e brings a new understanding to the contradictory and richly textured literary relationship that links the projects of European modernism and Anglo-American authors, on the one hand, and the imaginary of the post-revolutionary Mexican state and Chicano\/a writers, on the other hand. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Sheila Marie Contreras\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0292717970\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780292717978\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Texas Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/01\/2008\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 232\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.80lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.70d","brand":"Sheila Marie Contreras","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43995508146431,"sku":"9780292717978","price":22.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_1ced469d-eefc-4432-b312-6add4332bd7c.jpg?v=1683336214","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/blood-lines-sheila-marie-contreras-9780292717978","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}