Ritual Structures in Chicana Fiction

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Ritual Structures in Chicana Fiction is written by Helane Adams Androne and published by Palgrave Macmillan. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1349930067 (ISBN 10) and 9781349930067 (ISBN 13).

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 Castillo’s So Far From God, Denise Chávez’s Face of An Angel, and Sandra Cisneros’ Caramelo. Beginning with the implications of Gloria Anzaldúa’s 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>