Ritual Structures in Chicana Fiction [Hardcover]

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 Castillos So Far From God, Denise Ch?vezs Face of An Angel, and Sandra Cisneros Caramelo. Beginning with the implications of Gloria Anzald?as 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>

Contents

Acknowledgments

 

Introduction

 

Chapter 1                   A Place from where to think:

     The work of ritual criticism on Chicana fiction

 

Chapter 2                   Loca Malinalli:

     Centering the Spiritual in Ana Castillos So Far From God

 

Chapter 3                   &an actress in a play: Service as Sacred Performance in Denise Ch?vezs&l3)