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Title Borderlands saints : secular sanctity in Chicano/a and Mexican culture / Desiree A. Martin.

Publication Info.	New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [2014]
	2014

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Location	Call No.	OPAC Message	Status
Axe ProQuest E-Book	Electronic Book	---	Available

Description	1 online resource (268 pages).
	text rdacontent
	computer rdamedia
	online resource rdacarrier
Series	Latinidad: Transnational Cultures in the United States
	Latinidad.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents	Introduction: The secular sanctity of borderlands saints -- Saint of contradiction: Teresa Urrea, La Santa de Cabora -- The remains of Pancho Villa -- Canonizing Cesar Chavez -- Todos somos santos: Subcomandante Marcos and the EZLN -- Illegal marginalizations: La Santisima Muerte -- Conclusion: Narrative devotion.
Note	Description based on print version record.
Subject	American literature -- Mexican American authors -- History and criticism.
	Mexican American literature (Spanish) -- History and criticism.
	Mexican literature -- History and criticism.
	Secularism in literature.
	Holy, The, in literature.
	Heroes in literature.
	Mexican-American Border Region -- Civilization.
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
Other Form:	Print version: Martin, Desiree A. Borderlands saints : secular sanctity in Chicano/a and Mexican culture. New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [2014] x, 254 pages Latinidad: Transnational Cultures in the United States 9780813562346 (DLC) 2013000429
ISBN	9780813562346 (hardcover : alk. paper)
	9780813562339 (pbk. : alk. paper)
	9780813562353 (electronic bk.)