Blood Lines: Myth, Indigenism, and Chicana/O Literature

by Sheila Marie Contreras

2009 -- Runner-up, Modern Language Association Prize in United States Latina and Latino and Chicana and Chicano Literary and Cultural Studies

Blood Lines: Myth, Indigenism, and Chicana/o Literature 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0292717970
• ISBN13: 9780292717978
• Release Date: July 2008
• Publisher: University of Texas Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 8.9"