التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
| العنوان: |
Hybrid Spiritualities in Ana Castillo's The Guardians. |
| المؤلفون: |
SCHEMIEN, ALEXIA |
| المصدر: |
FIAR: Forum for Inter-American Research; May2013, Vol. 6 Issue 1, p100-120, 21p |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: |
RELIGION in literature, SPIRITUALITY in literature, FEMININITY in literature, MEXICAN-American Border Region in literature, MEXICAN American literature, LITERARY criticism, AMERICAN literature, FICTION |
| مصطلحات جغرافية: |
MEXICAN-American Border Region |
| Reviews & Products: |
GUARDIANS, The (Book : Castillo) |
| People: |
CASTILLO, Ana, 1953- |
| مستخلص: |
This article focuses on religion and spirituality in Ana Castillo's latest novel The Guardians; it seeks to demonstrate the U.S.-Mexican border's religious transnationalization. The aim is to show: (a) how the term hybrid spiritualities can be understood as a unifying link between religion and other discourses, such as femininity, crime, politics and (b) to uncover different levels of religion and spirituality in the novel, applying the notion of a hybrid spirituality. Individual characters in the novel embody various forms of religion and their interconnection with the other aforementioned issues and the corresponding discourses. The analysis reveals that no form of hybrid spirituality is privileged over another. The resulting impression that the novel creates is that of a Mexican American community permeated by diverse forms of spirituality. By displaying the corresponding interconnectivity of discourses, the article proposes a better understanding of the spiritual mixing and mingling in the context of the U.S.-Mexican borderlands. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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