Sacred Iconographies in Chicana Cultural Productions (Comparative Feminist Studies)

This book examines the iconography of the Virgin of Guadalupe as a force for social justice and feminist emancipation within Chicana cultural productions from 1975 to 2010. In these productions the Virgin serves as a paradigm to unlock the histories of conquest and colonization, racism, gender, and sexual oppression in the U.S.-Mexico borderland and beyond, and as a means to negotiate new social relations through spiritual mestizaje Front Matter....Pages i-xvi Introduction: On the Treachery and Emancipatory Power of Chicana Iconographies....Pages 1-17 Chicana Theory in the Flesh: A Bridge for the Transnational Feminist Movement....Pages 19-49 Nepantlismo, Chicana Approach to Colonial Ideology....Pages 51-74 Spiritualities of Dissent and Storytelling in Chicana Literature....Pages 75-97 Globalization and Chicana Politics of Representation....Pages 99-117 Queering the Sacred: Love as Oppositional Social Action....Pages 119-143 Conclusion: Globalizing Experiments of Western Thought, Patriarchal Christianity, and Environmental Wars in Chicana Sacred Iconographies....Pages 145-154 Back Matter....Pages 155-192