Martín, Desirée A.,  1972- <br/><br/>
Borderlands saints :  secular sanctity in Chicano/a and Mexican culture / 
Desirée A. Martín. 
 - New Brunswick, New Jersey :  Rutgers University Press,  (c)2014. 
 - 1 online resource. 
 - Latinidad: Transnational Cultures in the United States .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographies and index. 
<br/><br/>Introduction: The secular sanctity of borderlands saints --  Saint of contradiction: Teresa Urrea, La Santa de Cabora --  The remains of Pancho Villa --  Canonizing César Chávez --  Todos somos santos: Subcomandante Marcos and the EZLN --  Illegal marginalizations: La Santísima Muerte --  Conclusion: Narrative devotion. 
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<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781461954002 9780813562353 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>American literature--Mexican American authors--History and criticism.<br/>Mexican American literature (Spanish)--History and criticism.<br/>Mexican literature--History and criticism.<br/>Secularism in literature.<br/>Holy, The, in literature.<br/>Heroes in literature.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic Books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PQ7070  / .B673 2014