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Borderlands Saints : Secular Sanctity in Chicano/a and Mexican Culture / Desirée A. Martín.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Latinidad: Transnational Cultures in thePublisher: New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press, [2013]Copyright date: ©2013Description: 1 online resource (296 p.) : 5 illustrationsContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780813562346
  • 9780813562353
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 810.9/868 23
LOC classification:
  • PQ7070.5 .M37 2014
  • PQ7070.5 .M37 2014
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The Secular Sanctity of Borderlands Saints -- 1. Saint of Contradiction: Teresa Urrea, La Santa de Cabora -- 2. The Remains of Pancho Villa -- 3. Canonizing César Chávez -- 4. "Todos Somos Santos": Subcomandante Marcos and the EZLN -- 5. Illegal Marginalizations: La Santísima Muerte -- Conclusion: Narrative Devotion -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index -- About the Author
Summary: In Borderlands Saints, Desirée A. Martín examines the rise and fall of popular saints and saint-like figures in the borderlands of the United States and Mexico. Focusing specifically on Teresa Urrea (La Santa de Cabora), Pancho Villa, César Chávez, Subcomandante Marcos, and Santa Muerte, she traces the intersections of these figures, their devotees, artistic representations, and dominant institutions with an eye for the ways in which such unofficial saints mirror traditional spiritual practices and serve specific cultural needs. Popular spirituality of this kind engages the use and exchange of relics, faith healing, pilgrimages, and spirit possession, exemplifying the contradictions between high and popular culture, human and divine, and secular and sacred. Martín focuses upon a wide range of Mexican and Chicano/a cultural works drawn from the nineteenth century to the present, covering such diverse genres as the novel, the communiqué, drama, the essay or crónica, film, and contemporary digital media. She argues that spiritual practice is often represented as narrative, while narrative-whether literary, historical, visual, or oral-may modify or even function as devotional practice.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The Secular Sanctity of Borderlands Saints -- 1. Saint of Contradiction: Teresa Urrea, La Santa de Cabora -- 2. The Remains of Pancho Villa -- 3. Canonizing César Chávez -- 4. "Todos Somos Santos": Subcomandante Marcos and the EZLN -- 5. Illegal Marginalizations: La Santísima Muerte -- Conclusion: Narrative Devotion -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index -- About the Author

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In Borderlands Saints, Desirée A. Martín examines the rise and fall of popular saints and saint-like figures in the borderlands of the United States and Mexico. Focusing specifically on Teresa Urrea (La Santa de Cabora), Pancho Villa, César Chávez, Subcomandante Marcos, and Santa Muerte, she traces the intersections of these figures, their devotees, artistic representations, and dominant institutions with an eye for the ways in which such unofficial saints mirror traditional spiritual practices and serve specific cultural needs. Popular spirituality of this kind engages the use and exchange of relics, faith healing, pilgrimages, and spirit possession, exemplifying the contradictions between high and popular culture, human and divine, and secular and sacred. Martín focuses upon a wide range of Mexican and Chicano/a cultural works drawn from the nineteenth century to the present, covering such diverse genres as the novel, the communiqué, drama, the essay or crónica, film, and contemporary digital media. She argues that spiritual practice is often represented as narrative, while narrative-whether literary, historical, visual, or oral-may modify or even function as devotional practice.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 30. Aug 2021)