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La Malinche's role in Chicana literature;
Certain contemporary Chicana writers have taken on La Malinche, re-writing her story as one of a woman who had little choice in her role as Cortes' interpreter (she was sold to him as a slave), and who served as a "mediator between the Spanish and indigenous peoples." Chicana writers have taken the initiative to share Dona Marina's story from her perspective. In some Chicana literature, La Malinche is seen as the cultural mother. La Malinche resembles Chicanas as she too was not only in two countries but also had two cultures' influence. La Malinche was not a slave of the Spaniards and ended up being one of the wealthiest and most powerful people in colonial Mexico.
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- She is generally viewed as the main symbol of all Catholic Mexicans.
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La Malinche
La Llorona
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- These redefinitions of Chicana archetypes allow "us to see a culturally specific genealogy rooted within pre-Conquest, pre-Aztec feminine representations." They provide Chicanas of today with role models that can be useful to them. These are strong women, resistant to cultural, racist, and sexual male domination, they are not voiceless victims.
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La Llorona part 2
The weeping woman: The folkloric legend of La Llorona is a story that has many variants. Generally, the story involves a woman who is scorned by a lover and in a fit of insanity or revenge, drowns her own children. Afterward, she is condemned to wander the earth, mourning her children typically haunting by riversides. La Llorona because she can be heard crying loudly in the night, lamenting her lost children.[1]
- La Llorona's role in Chicana literature;
Folklore scholar Jose Limon argues that "La Llorona [is] a symbol that speaks to the course of Greater Mexican [and Chicana/o] history and does so for women in particular, but through the idiom of women [it]also symbolizes the utopian longing [for equality and justice]'."[2] Sandra Cisneros has used this modern La Llorona story that is "Woman Hollering Creek" to give a "voice to the violated Latina mother who ... struggles against domestic violence and economic and emotional dependency on men."[1]
Traditionally, La Llorona is a treacherous figure; she kills her own children in an act of ultimate betrayal. She is selfish; she would rather keep her lover than her children. She is insane, often depicted as a crazy woman, neglectful and abusive to her children.[3] In some variants of the story, she doesn't kill the children but she abandons them.[2] She is vengeful; she kills/abandons children to avenge her broken heart.[1] Finally, she is foolish: she kills the children and regrets doing so only when it is too late.
Chicana writers such as
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- ^ a b c d e Carbonell 1999, pp. 53–74.
- ^ a b Candelaria 1993, pp. 111–116.
- ^ Carbonell 1999, p. 55.
- ^ Pratt 1993, pp. 859–873.