The Black Madonna in Latin America and Europe: Tradition and Transformation. By Malgorzata Oleszkiewicz-Peralba. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2007. xx+227 pp. $34.95 cloth; $27.95 paper.

摘要

How does the religious iconography and mythology of central Poland informrnthe revolutionary mythologies and symbols of Chicana/o power movements?rnFew scholarly works would venture into such unlikely comparisons, whatrnwith the deacons of traditional academic disciplines continuing to preachrnbounded and thus limited studies—based on circumspect short historicalrnperiods, data sets, interviews, and so on. But true interdisciplinary endeavorsrneschew rigid doctrines, traveling less chosen paths in search of freshrndiscoveries. Malgorzata Oleszkiewicz-Peralba’s The Black Madonna in LatinrnAmerica and Europe, is a triumph of such interdisciplinarity for itsrnunorthodox associations and epic geographic and historical scope.