Domino Renee Perez: There Was a Woman

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Beschreibung

"How is it that there are so many lloronas?" A haunting figure of Mexican oral and literary traditions, La Llorona permeates the consciousness of her folk community. From a ghost who haunts the riverbank to a murderous mother condemned to wander the earth after killing her own children in an act of revenge or grief, the Weeping Woman has evolved within Chican@ imaginations across centuries, yet no truly comprehensive examination of her impact existed until now. Tracing La Llorona from ancient oral tradition to her appearance in contemporary material culture, There Was a Woman delves into the intriguing transformations of this provocative icon.

From La Llorona's roots in legend to the revisions of her story and her exaltation as a symbol of resistance, Domino Renee Perez illuminates her many permutations as seductress, hag, demon, or pitiful woman. Perez draws on more than two hundred artifacts to provide vivid representations of the ways in which these perceived identities are woven from abstract notions-such as morality or nationalism-and from concrete, often misunderstood concepts from advertising to television and literature. The result is a rich and intricate survey of a powerful figure who continues to be reconfigured.

Über den Autor

DOMINO RENEE PEREZ is Associate Professor in the Department of English and the Center for Mexican American Studies at the University of Texas at Austin.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Haunting Our Cultural Imagination
Chapter 1. A Five-Hundred-Year History: Traditional La Llorona Tales
Chapter 2. Revision and the Process of Critical Interrogation
Chapter 3. Infamy and Activism: La Llorona as Resistance
Chapter 4. "Long Before the Weeping": Re-Turning La Llorona
Chapter 5. La Llorona Lore as Intercultural Dialogue
Chapter 6. A New Generation of Cultural/Critical Readers
Conclusion: Folklore as Critical Lens
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Permissions Acknowledgments

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2008
Genre:	Importe , Politikwissenschaft & Soziologie
Rubrik:	Wissenschaften
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Inhalt:	Einband - flex.(Paperback)
ISBN-13:	9780292718128
ISBN-10:	0292718128
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Perez, Domino Renee
Hersteller:	University of Texas Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße:	229 x 152 x 18 mm
Von/Mit:	Domino Renee Perez
Erscheinungsdatum:	01.06.2008
Gewicht:	0,484 kg