Description
Book SynopsisA critical analysis of the important ways in which La Llorona—the Weeping Woman—has shaped Mexican cultural identity, from folktales to acts of political resistance.
Trade Review"This book is genius... This is interdisciplinary scholarship at its finest ... that seamlessly crosses and blurs the methodological boundaries of ethnography, cultural critique, feminist critique, literary analysis, visual analysis, and popular culture studies... I wanted to read every word of it." Alicia Gaspar de Alba, Professor of Chicana/o Studies and English, University of California at Los Angeles
Table of Contents
- 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
