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Blood Lines
Myth, Indigenism and Chicana/o Literature (Chicana Matters Series)
by Sheila Marie Contreras
Hardcover, 232 Pages, Published 2008 by University Of Texas Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-292-71796-1, ISBN: 0-292-71796-2

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

Blood Lines
Myth, Indigenism, and Chicana/o Literature (Chicana Matters (Paperback))
by Sheila Marie Contreras
Paperback, 232 Pages, Published 2008 by University Of Texas Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-292-71797-8, ISBN: 0-292-71797-0

Dictionary of Midwestern Literature, Volume 2
Dimensions of the Midwestern Literary Imagination
by Philip A. Greasley, Crystal S. Anderson, David D. Anderson, Kathie Ryckman Anderson, Patricia Anderson, Marilyn Judith Atlas, Thomas Fox Averill, Paul Baggett, William Barillas, Jill Barnum, Anne Beck, Robert Beasecker, James M. Boehnlein, Sheena Denney Boran, Victoria Brehm, Rachel Breneman, Roger Bresnahan, Emily Thornton Calvo, Sharon Carlson, Jennifer Cathey, Haeja K. Chung, Emily Churilla, Hannah L. Coffey, Daniel P. Compora, Sheila Marie Contreras, Leslie Czechowski, Edward Dauterich, Todd Fleming Davis, Theresa Delgadillo, Jill Doerfler, Robert Dunne, Maureen N. Eke, Carol Fadda-Conrey, Katherine Fama, Timothy C. Frazer, Philip L. Gerber, Kenneth B. Grant, Marsha O. Greasley, Øyvind T. Gulliksen, Benjamin Hale, Willie J. Harrell, Stephen C. Holder, Ashley Hopkins, Jeffrey Hotz, William E. Huntzicker, Katherine Joslin, Immaculate Kizza, Sara Kosiba, Joyce R. Ladenson, Clarence Lindsay, Larry Lockridge, Loren Logsdon, Paul W. Miller, David Newquist, Marcia Noe, Mary Dejong Obuchowski, Sally E. Parry, Steve Paul, David Perusek, John R. Pfeiffer, Rod Phillips, Denise Pilato, Ronald Primeau, David Radavich, Kristy Nelson Raine, Milton Reigelman, Garyn G. Roberts, John Rohrkemper, Robert L. Root, Margaret Rozga, Herbert K. Russell, Mike Ryan, David K. Sauer, Ann L. Seaton, James Seaton, Marc Kelly Smith, Joyce Caldwell Smith, Crystal Stallman, Jeffrey Swenson, Guy Szuberla, Thom Tammaro, Jon C. Teaford, Catherine Tobin, Ellen Serlen Uffen, Lance Weldy, Johnnie Wilcox, Keith Wilhite, Douglas Wixson, Joseph Wydeven, Susan Yanos
Hardcover, 1,064 Pages, Published 2016 by Indiana University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-253-02104-5, ISBN: 0-253-02104-9

"The Midwest has produced a robust literary heritage. Its authors have won half of the nation’s Nobel Prizes for Literature plus a significant number of Pulitzer Prizes. This volume explores the rich racial, ethnic, and cultural diversity of the region. It also contains entries on thirty-five pivotal Midwestern literary works, literary genres, literary, cultural, historical, and social movements, state and city literatures, literary jour ..."

Blood Lines
Myth, Indigenism, and Chicana - O Literature
by Sheila Marie Contreras
232 Pages, Published 2009 by University Of Texas Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-292-78252-5, ISBN: 0-292-78252-7

"Books like Neil Baldwin's 1998 Legends of the Plumed Serpent: Biography of a Mexican God, a tour through the “remote ruins” of Mexico, point to mythology as the defining feature of Mexico's pre-Conquest past, with almost complete disregard for Indigenous populations of the present. In recalling his decision to write the ... Baldwin recounts his dissatisfaction with the quality and quantity of materials designed to introduce the tou ..."

Blood Lines
Myth, Indigenism, and Chicana/o Literature
by Sheila Marie Contreras
Published 2010
ISBN-13: 978-0-292-79405-4, ISBN: 0-292-79405-3

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