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Author: Amanda V. Ellis
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Imprint: University of Arizona Press
Dimensions:
Width: 15.20cm
, Height: 2.20cm
, Length: 23.10cm
Weight: 0.535kg
ISBN: 9780816542741
ISBN 10: 0816542740
Pages: 296
Publication Date: 30 August 2021
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Out of stock
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Reviews
Letras y Limpias: Decolonial Medicine and Holistic Healing in Mexican American Literature offers the reader great insight into the way the curandera figures in our literature. [It] offers deep insight into the healer's remedios and the items in her tool kit. The author shows that the healing of the metaphorical wound and of the innate ailments of a colonized people can and does happen via the figure of the curandera, who tends to the physical ailments as well as the spiritual needs of our community. --Norma E. Cantu, author of Meditacion Fronteriza: Poems of Love, Life, and Labor Ellis's book of decolonial medicine gives us a healthy dose of what we need to learn about healing. These lessons serve anyone interested in cultivating wellness by giving us the tools to analyze the neoliberal profit-at-any-cost manipulation of the health industry. That these ideas rise up from the pages of Mexican American literature makes this book particularly inspirational; anyone can read about wellness in this way. --Priscilla Solis Ybarra, author of Writing the Goodlife: Mexican American Literature and the Environment
""Letras y Limpias: Decolonial Medicine and Holistic Healing in Mexican American Literature offers the reader great insight into the way the curandera figures in our literature. [It] offers deep insight into the healer's remedios and the items in her tool kit. The author shows that the healing of the metaphorical wound and of the innate ailments of a colonized people can and does happen via the figure of the curandera, who tends to the physical ailments as well as the spiritual needs of our community.""--Norma E. Cantú, author of Meditación Fronteriza: Poems of Love, Life, and Labor ""Ellis's book of decolonial medicine gives us a healthy dose of what we need to learn about healing. These lessons serve anyone interested in cultivating wellness by giving us the tools to analyze the neoliberal profit-at-any-cost manipulation of the health industry. That these ideas rise up from the pages of Mexican American literature makes this book particularly inspirational; anyone can read about wellness in this way.""--Priscilla Solis Ybarra, author of Writing the Goodlife: Mexican American Literature and the Environment
Author Information
Amanda Ellis is an assistant professor of English at the University of Houston, where she teaches courses on Mexican American literature, multi-ethnic literature, and American literature.
