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CALLING THE SOUL BACK C A L L I N G T H E S O U L B A C K Embodied Spirituality in Chicanx Narrative CHRISTINA GARCIA LOPEZ The University of Arizona Press www .uapress .arizona .edu © 2019 by The Arizona Board of Regents All rights reserved. Published 2019 ISBN-13: 978-0-8165-3775-4 (cloth) Cover design by Leigh McDonald Cover art: Lift Me Up © 2008 Maya Gonzalez Publication of this book is made possible in part by the proceeds of a permanent endowment created with the assistance of a Challenge Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, a federal agency. Library of Congress Cataloging- in- Publication Data are available at the Library of Congress. Printed in the United States of America ♾ This paper meets the requirements of ANSI/NISO Z39.48-1992 (Permanence of Paper). For the struggling souls, trying to find their way back For Joaquin, who lights my way C O N T E N T S List of Illustrations ix Preface xi Acknowledgments xiii Introduction: Approaching Narrative as Healing Work 3 1 The Body in Trauma: Healing a Collective Susto 31 2 The Ritual Body: Feminism and Spiritual Inheritance 65 3 The Grieving Body: Radical Reorientation 86 4 The Body Rooted and Flowing: Toward a Decolonized Spirituality 121 5 The Dreaming Body: Resituating Time, Space, and Knowledge 151 Epilogue 187 Works Cited 195 Index 205 I L L U S T R A T I O N S 1. Gloria E. Anzaldúa, “Woman Falling” 41 2. Virginia Grise performing “Panza Brujería” at The Panza Monologues world premier 62 3. Ester Hernández, Have You Seen Marie?: woman standing on cypress roots 115 4. Ester Hernández, Have You Seen Marie?: woman wrapped in stars 118 5. Maya Christina Gonzalez, I Know the River Loves Me / Yo sé que el río me ama: girl underwater 137 6. Maya Christina Gonzalez, I Know the River Loves Me / Yo sé que el río me ama: girl on bridge 139 7. Maya Christina Gonzalez, Call Me Tree / Llámame árbol: child as seed 143 8. Maya Christina Gonzalez, Call Me Tree / Llámame árbol: tree-children 147
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