{"product_id":"borderlands-saints-secular-sanctity-in-chicano-a-and-mexican-culture-hardback-9780813562346","title":"Borderlands Saints; Secular Sanctity in Chicano\/a and Mexican Culture (Hardback) 9780813562346","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eBorderlands Saints\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eSecular Sanctity in Chicano\/a and Mexican Culture\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eDesirée A. Martín (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780813562346\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 19 December 2013\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e296 pages, 5 illustrations\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2.3 cm, 0.513 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\"Addressing religion, spirituality and sanctity in Chicana\/o culture, \u003ci\u003eBorderlands Saints \u003c\/i\u003emakes\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003ea significant contribution to a burgeoning area that demands critical attention.\"\u003c\/div\u003e - Carl Gutiérrez-Jones (University of California, Santa Barbara) \u003cdiv\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eBorderland Saints\u003c\/i\u003e offers compelling portraits of popular and secular saints who exist unapologetically outside the realm of official church teaching.\"\u003c\/div\u003e (Latino Studies) \u003cdiv\u003e\"Through MartÍn’s incisive critical textual analysis we come to see the borderlands—and the exchange there between devotees and saints—as an important site for the performance of secular sanctity. \u003ci\u003eBorderlands Saints\u003c\/i\u003e is an invaluable contribution to border studies.\"\u003c\/div\u003e - Laura G. Gutiérrez (author of Performing Mexicanidad: Vendidas y Cabareteras on the Transnational Stage)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the 2014 Latina\/o Studies Section - LASA Outstanding Book Award\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e In \u003ci\u003eBorderlands Saints\u003c\/i\u003e, DesirÉe A. MartÍn examines the rise and fall of popular saints and saint-like figures in the borderlands of the United States and Mexico. Focusing specifically on Teresa Urrea (La Santa de Cabora), Pancho Villa, CÉsar ChÁvez, Subcomandante Marcos, and Santa Muerte, she traces the intersections of these figures, their devotees, artistic representations, and dominant institutions with an eye for the ways in which such unofficial saints mirror traditional spiritual practices and serve specific cultural needs.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePopular spirituality of this kind engages the use and exchange of relics, faith healing, pilgrimages, and spirit possession, exemplifying the contradictions between high and popular culture, human and divine, and secular and sacred. MartÍn focuses upon a wide range of Mexican and Chicano\/a cultural works drawn from the nineteenth century to the present, covering such diverse genres as the novel, the communiquÉ, drama, the essay or crÓnica, film, and contemporary digital media. She argues that spiritual practice is often represented as narrative, while narrative—whether literary, historical, visual, or oral—may modify or even function as devotional practice.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction: The Secular Sanctity of Borderlands Saints\u003cbr\u003e1. Saint of Contradictions: Teresa Urrea, La Santa de Cabora\u003cbr\u003e2. The Remains of Pancho Villa\u003cbr\u003e3. Canonizing CÉsar ChÁvez\u003cbr\u003e4. \"Todos Somos Santos\": Subcomandante Marcos and the EZLN\u003cbr\u003e5. Illegal Marginalizations: La SantÍsima Muerte\u003cbr\u003eConclusion: Narrative Devotion\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNotes \u003cbr\u003eWorks Cited\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Rutgers University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52559334736152,"sku":"9780813562346","price":85.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/borderlands-saints-secular-sanctity-in-chicano-a-and-mexican-culture-hardback-9780813562346","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}