Calling the Soul Back: Embodied Spirituality in Chicanx Narrative PDF

by ~ Christina Garcia Lopez

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Calling the Soul Back: Embodied Spirituality in Chicanx Narrative

Read Online and Download Calling the Soul Back: Embodied Spirituality in Chicanx Narrative. Spirituality has consistently been present in the political and cultural counternarratives of Chicanx literature. Calling the Soul Back focuses on the embodied aspects of a spirituality integrating body, mind, and soul. Centering the relationship between embodiment and literary narrative, Christina Garcia Lopez shows narrative as healing work through which writers and readers ritually call back the soul?one?s unique immaterial essence?into union with the body, counteracting the wounding fragmentation that emerged out of colonization and imperialism. These readings feature both underanalyzed and more popular works by pivotal writers such as Gloria Anzald?a, Sandra Cisneros, and Rudolfo Anaya, in addition to works by less commonly acknowledged authors.Calling the Soul Back explores the spiritual and ancestral knowledge offered in narratives of bodies in trauma, bodies engaged in ritual, grieving bodies, bodies immersed in and becoming part of nature, and dreaming bodies. Reading across .

Calling the Soul Back: Embodied Spirituality in Chicanx Narrative by Christina Garcia Lopez

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