Letras Y Limpias: Decolonial Medicine And Holistic Healing In Mexican American Literature, Paperback - Amanda V. Ellis

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Ellis Letras y Limpias is the first book to explore the literary significance of the figure of the curandera within Mexican American literature. Ellis argues that our contemporary western health-care system does not know how to fully grapple with illnesses that patients face. Letras y Limpias draws from Chicana feminist theory to assert the importance of the mindbodyspirit connection. Ellis conveys theoretical insights about the continual reimagining of the figure of the curandera as a watermark across Mexican American literary texts.

Within the ghettos, a small but distinct group existed: the assimilated, acculturated, and baptized Jews.About author(s):Katarzyna Person is a researcher at the Jewish Historical Institute in Warsaw, Poland.

Letras y Limpias draws from Chicana feminist theory to assert the importance of the mindbodyspirit connection. Letras Y Limpias: Decolonial Medicine and Holistic Healing in Mexican American Literature, Paperback - Amanda V.

About author(s):Katarzyna Person is a researcher at the Jewish Historical Institute in Warsaw, Poland. In the first English-language study of this small but influential group, Person illuminates the important role of the acculturated and assimilated Jews in the history and memory of the Warsaw Ghetto.