Overview
- Analyzes in depth how ritual shapes the performance of culture, gender, and language in texts by Chicana women
- Offers a compelling synthesis of literary theory with spiritual, nationalist, communal, and feminist medical principles to read Chicana feminist fiction
- Provides an original theoretical approach to a range of Chicana authors, from Denise Chavez to Sandra Cisneros and Ana Castillo.
Part of the book series: Literatures of the Americas (LOA)
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This book argues for the necessary and further examination of the sacred as it is ritualized within Chicana fiction. It suggests that religious, spiritual, linguistic and political symbolisms reveal rites that structure narrative performances of coping with and healing from trauma. Helane Androne examines these rites of spirit, service, and story as they occur in Ana Castillo’s So Far From God, Denise Chávez’s Face of An Angel, and Sandra Cisneros’ Caramelo. Beginning with the implications of Gloria Anzaldúa’s spiritual vision of Chicana identity alongside structural principles of ritual criticism, this study extends the discourse about the impact of the sacred in Chicana fiction. an>
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Table of contents (5 chapters)
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Reviews
“Approaching Chicana fiction from the field of ritual criticism, Helane Androne navigates familiar ground with groundbreaking, innovative methodological instruments to shows us new angles. This alone makes for an exciting reading of the de-colonial, egalitarian impetus behind Chicana literature. Each chapter provides a different optic for recognizing the dimensions of ritualization and performance and reveals a process of becoming that is larger than bildungsroman. Thoughtful and provocative, this book brings what is easily obscured in literary studies into full presence.” (Clara Román-Odio, Professor of Spanish and Latin American Literature, Kenyon College, USA, and author of “Sacred Iconographies in Chicana Cultural Productions”)
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Helane Androne is Professor of English and directs the Ohio Writing Project at Miami University, USA. She is the author of Multiethnic American Literatures: Essays for Teaching Context and Culture and has published in journals such as Pedagogy, MELUS, and Phoebe.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Ritual Structures in Chicana Fiction
Authors: Helane Androne
Series Title: Literatures of the Americas
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-58854-8
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature America, Inc. 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-59670-3Published: 21 September 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-58854-8Published: 06 September 2016
Series ISSN: 2634-601X
Series E-ISSN: 2634-6028
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 134
Topics: North American Literature, Latin American Culture, Literature, general, Cultural Studies, Postcolonial/World Literature