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Bandits, Captives, Heroines, and Saints








Bandits, Captives, Heroines, and Saints
Author
Irwin Robert McKee
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Publisher
Univ of Minnesota Pr
Isbn
0816648565
EAN
9780816648566
Pub. date
23 JAN 07
Collection
(Hardcover)
Classification
SOCIAL SCIENCE
Pages
331
Price
€ 66,30





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<DIV><p style="" class="MsoNormal"><I>Bandits, Captives, Heroines, and Saints</I> investigates cultural icons of the late nineteenth century from Mexico's largely unstudied northwest borderlands, present-day Sonora, Baja California, and western Chihuahua. Robert McKee Irwin looks at popular figures such as Joaquín Murrieta, the gold rush social bandit; Lola Casanova, the anti-Malinche, whose marriage to a Seri Indian symbolized a forbidden form of <I>mestizaje;</I> and la Santa de Cabora, a young faith healer who inspired armed insurgencies and was exiled to Arizona.</p> <p style="" class="MsoNormal"> </p> <p style="" class="MsoNormal">Cultural icons such as Murrieta, Lola Casanova, and la Santa de Cabora are products of intercultural dialogue, Irwin reveals, and their characterizations are unstable. They remain relevant for generations because there is no consensus regarding their meanings, and they are weapons in struggles of representation in the borderlands. The figures studied here are especially malleable, he argues, because they are marginalized from the mainstream of historiography.</p> <p style="" class="MsoNormal"> </p> <p style="" class="MsoNormal">A timely analysis, <I>Bandits, Captives, Heroines, and Saints </I>challenges current paradigms of border studies and presents a rich understanding of the ways in which cultural icons influence people's minds and lives.</p> <p style="" class="MsoNormal"> </p> <p style="" class="MsoNormal">Robert McKee Irwin is associate professor of Spanish at the University of California, Davis, and the author of Mexican Masculinities (Minnesota, 2003).</p></DIV>


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