{"product_id":"calling-the-soul-back-embodied-spirituality-in-chicanx-narrative-by-christina-garcia-lopez","title":"Calling the Soul Back: Embodied Spirituality in Chicanx Narrative \/ by Christina Garcia Lopez","description":"\u003cp\u003eUniversity of Arizona Press, 2021. Trade paperback Remainder mark. VG. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-expanded=\"true\" class=\"a-expander-content a-expander-partial-collapse-content a-expander-content-expanded\"\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003eSpirituality has consistently been present in the political and cultural counternarratives of Chicanx literature. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eCalling the Soul Back\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e focuses on the embodied aspects of a spirituality integrating body, mind, and soul. Centering the relationship between embodiment and literary narrative, Christina Garcia Lopez shows narrative as healing work through which writers and readers ritually call back the soul—one’s unique immaterial essence—into union with the body, counteracting the wounding fragmentation that emerged out of colonization and imperialism. These readings feature both underanalyzed and more popular works by pivotal writers such as Gloria Anzaldúa, Sandra Cisneros, and Rudolfo Anaya, in addition to works by less commonly acknowledged authors.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eCalling the Soul Back\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e explores the spiritual and ancestral knowledge offered in narratives of bodies in trauma, bodies engaged in ritual, grieving bodies, bodies immersed in and becoming part of nature, and dreaming bodies. Reading across narrative nonfiction, performative monologue, short fiction, fables, illustrated children’s books, and a novel, Garcia Lopez asks how these narratives draw on the embodied intersections of ways of knowing and being to shift readers’ consciousness regarding relationships to space, time, and natural environments.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eUsing an interdisciplinary approach, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eCalling the Soul Back\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e draws on literary and Chicanx studies scholars as well as those in religious studies, feminist studies, sociology, environmental studies, philosophy, and Indigenous studies, to reveal narrative’s healing potential to bring the soul into balance with the body and mind.\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Desierto Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56322998927526,"sku":null,"price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0659\/3465\/5654\/files\/callingthesoul.jpg?v=1774479420","url":"https:\/\/249f2c-1b.myshopify.com\/products\/calling-the-soul-back-embodied-spirituality-in-chicanx-narrative-by-christina-garcia-lopez","provider":"DESIERTO BOOKS","version":"1.0","type":"link"}