Desiring B/orders

Gutiérrez-Jones, Carl; Rechy, John; Saldívar, Ramón

doi:10.2307/465367

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“…As one literary critic has suggested, the issues raised by Amalia Gomez "foreground particular concerns," including "the development of a critical stance toward consensual ideologies that keep people like Amalia herself fixated upon the supposedly empowering exercise of often limited, even degrading, choices." 8 By following Amalia through one traumatic day, the reader is led to insights about how Amalia relies on religious myths and symbols when confronted with overwhelming circumstances. In the end, her suffering and reinterpreted Catholic faith prove transformative as she develops a "criti-cal stance," culminating in a religious epiphany.…”

Section: Luis Leonmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Poetic Uses of Religion inThe Miraculous Day of Amalia Gómez

León¹

1999

Relig. Am. cult.

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It is surprising that so few historians of religions have ever tried to interpret a literary work from their own perspective.—Mircea EliadeThere are no gospels that are immortal, but neither is there any reason for believing that humanity is incapable of inventing new ones.—Emile DurkheimWas that what God expected, that ritual of more pain? She thought of Milagros. Add this to all her miseries? Milagros yearned for less pain… . Was the old woman in veils courting something more with her crawling on bloodied knees—a miracle—by displaying her endurance for greater misery?—John RechyThe past thirty years have been a watershed in Mexican American literature, witnessing the proliferation of texts with increasingly diverse themes. For the most part, this literary production has been motivated by the impulse to narrate the stories that typify Mexican cultural history in the United States.

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Section: Luis Leonmentioning

confidence: 99%