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Acknowledgements ................................................................................................. i
1. Introduction .................................................................................................... 1
2. Spiritual Borderlands ...................................................................................... 10
2.1 Border and Inter-American Studies ....................................................... 10
2.2 A Brief History of the Spiritual Borderlands ......................................... 26
2.3 Creating a Cultural and Literary Aztlán ................................................. 46
2.4 Doing Religion: Politics and Discourses ............................................... 58
3. Spirituality and Gender .................................................................................. 75
3.1 Ana Castillo's Feminist Vision in The Guardians ................................. 83
3.2 Of Weeping Women and Curanderas:
Graciela Limón's The River Flows North .............................................. 95
3.3 Of Wrestlers and Saints:
María Ampara Escandón's Esperanza's Box of Saints .......................... 110
4. Spirituality, Homeland, and Ancestry ............................................................ 129
4.1 An American Saint:
Luis Alberto Urrea's The Hummingbird s Daughter .............................. 129
4.2 Of Gothic Tales and Spiritual Ancestry: Carmen Tafolla's "Tia ......... 147
5. Post-Spirituality and Undoing Religion ......................................................... 156
5.1 Richard Rodriguez's Darling: A Post-Spiritual Autobiography? .......... 159
5.2 A Cosmos of Its Own: Salvador Plascencia's The People of Paper ...... 170
6. Conclusion ..................................................................................................... 186
7. Works Cited ................................................................................................... 190
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