Dancing With the Devil: Society and Cultural Poetics in Mexican-American South Texas - Couverture souple

University Of Wisconsin Press

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0299142248 ISBN 13 : 9780299142247

Editeur : University of Wisconsin Press, 1994

Synopsis

Combining shrewd applications of current cultural theory with compelling autobiography and elegant prose, José E. Limón works at the intersection of anthropology, folklore, popular culture, history, and literary criticism. A native of South Texas, he renders a historical and ethnographic account of its rich Mexican-American folk culture. This folk culture, he shows--whether expressed through male joking rituals, ballroom polka dances, folk healing, or eating and drinking traditions--metaphorically dances with the devil, both resisting and accommodating the dominant culture of Texas.
Critiquing the work of his precursors-- John Gregory Bourke, J. Frank Dobie, Jovita Gonzalez, and Americo Paredes--Limón deftly demonstrates that their accounts of Mexican-Americans in South Texas contain race, class, and gender contradictions, revealed most clearly in their accounts of the folkloric figure of the devil. Limón's own field-based ethnography follows, and again the devil appears as a recurrent motif, signaling the ideological contradictions of folk practices in a South Texas on the verge of postmodernity.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Wisconsin Press
• Date d'édition: 1994
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0299142248
• ISBN 13: 9780299142247
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 266
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