TY - BOOK AU - Martín,Desirée A. TI - Borderlands Saints: Secular Sanctity in Chicano/a and Mexican Culture T2 - Latinidad: Transnational Cultures in the SN - 9780813562346 AV - PQ7070.5 .M37 2014 U1 - 810.9/868 23 PY - 2013///] CY - New Brunswick, NJ : PB - Rutgers University Press, KW - American literature KW - Mexican American authors KW - History and criticism KW - Heroes in literature KW - Holy, The, in literature KW - Mexican American literature (Spanish) KW - Mexican literature KW - Secularism in literature KW - SOCIAL SCIENCE / General KW - bisacsh N1 - 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; restricted access; Issued also in print N2 - 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 UR - https://doi.org/10.36019/9780813562353 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780813562353 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9780813562353.jpg ER -