Sacred Iconographies in Chicana Cultural Productions [Hardcover]

This book examines the iconography of the Virgin of Guadalupe as a force for social justice and feminist emancipation within Chicana cultural productions from 1975-2010. In these productions the Virgin serves as a paradigm to unlock the histories of conquest and colonization, racism, and sexual oppression in the US-Mexico borderland and beyond.Introduction: On the Treachery and Emancipatory Power of Chicana Iconographies 1. Chicana Theory in the Flesh: A Bridgefor the Transnational Feminist Movement 2. Nepantlismo, Chicana Approach to Colonial Ideology 3. Spiritualities of Dissent and Storytelling in Chicana Literature 4. Globalization and Chicana Politics of Representation 5. Queering the Sacred: Love as Oppositional Social Action Conclusion

Sacred Iconographies in Chicana CulturalProductions is a clearly organized and well-written book with a powerfulargument that academic and non-academic audiences can appreciate. & overallthis is worthwhile book that I highly recommend for its path breaking analysisof mestiza spirituality in cultural productions that hopefully other Latina/ostudies scholars will build upon in the near future. (Mari CastaHeda, LatinoStudies, Vol. 13 (3), September, 2015)

Impressive in its impressive command of sources from many different fields. I recommend it. - Anthropos

This landmark publication advances the fields of de-colonial liberation, divinity and cultural studies. In these pages our guides are 'anti-icons ' who stand against systems of domination, the divine mothers Tonantzin, Mary, Coatlaxopeuh, the Virgin de Guadalupe, the feminine and the matrilineal, here to teach us twenty-first-century spiritualties of dissent. Today these figures are facilitating an emerging planetary culture that functions beyond and without borders. This book's method makes their presence visible - but only if readers are able to think in and through a de-colonizing feminism that is at once spiritual, political,lC(