Llorona

Women in a typical Hispanic culture usually desire an image they want or expect based on the media. For example, when it comes to relationships the media portrays the ideal image of a marriage and then women have an expectation, as in the short story “Woman Hollering Creek” , by Sandra Cisneros. Cleofilas, the Protagonist, moves from her known household in Mexico to Seguin, Texas to get married to Juan Pedro. Her hometown in Mexico is very similar to where she is now in Seguin. Cleofilas meet two

In the short story by Helena Maria Viramontes, “The Cariboo Café’, describes several of the key issues many immigrants face daily when living in the United States. The short story is broken down to three different narrative sections. Each section illustrates different problems that are being faced by the Chicano/a community. The story describes the lives of Chicano/a immigrants, a Central American refugee, and the owner of the café. Each part is given by different perspectives of the characters,

is devastated to hear that the man she loved doesn’t want to be with her. Consequently, she drowns herself in a river in Mexico. Being denied entrance to Heaven, she is forced to stay eternally on Earth and search for her children. Explanation: La Llorona began as a mythological story in Mexico that has now made its way throughout the world. Many places throughout Cantral America, South America, and even Asia have told this story but with some twists. This story has also inspired movies throughout

writers persuading on this play and writing more and more about something else. This also embodies humanism by having it in culture and traditions, some traditions involve parents telling their kids about famous writing such as “Romeo and Juliet”, “ la llorona”.

Colonizing is the act of dominating a territory and population. That domination includes erasure, severance of common memory, and a forceful infiltration of the colonizer’s customs, ideals, and culture. “Decolonization” is the reverse act of colonizing — an undoing. At fourteen years old I was painfully aware of the duality of my identity: equal parts oppressed and oppressor. As I poured over the narratives of Gloria Anzaldua, Malcolm X, Ta Nehisi Coates, Angela Davis, Cesar Chavez, and Audre Lorde

A general definition of Epistemology is the theory of knowledge; it’s methods, validity, and scope. From a Chicana Feminism standpoint, I believe it is how we analyze knowledge from the culture that influences our daily lives. Chicanas strive and grow through the teachings and stories of past activists which tells us the changes that have been made and the changes that are still to come. They are important because it gives us different perspectives and understandings of Chicana history. Not every

The book Woman Hollering Creek, by Sandra Cisneros highlights many examples of “everyday verbal mythology” in the Hispanic culture, literacy and language as sites of conflict build up. The violence in lack of translation, interpretation by translators, culture betrayal and existence of encoded language only familiar to insiders are some of the issues that seems not to appeal to the translators. The sufferings and subordination of both the culture and language by the leading culture is accompanied

trumpet. While observing, the group wore blue bows with black suits. The girl's hair was either in one or two braids with a white flower on the side. The boys’ hair was slicked back like professionals. The song that this group perform the song “La Llorona” by Next, the Roosevelt School Mariachi performed. . There were eleven members in the group made of mostly girls. This group played the trumpet, violin, guitar, vihuela, and guitarron. They wore green bows with black suit. The girls had their

Coco Vs The Book of Life After a long war with Joaquin for Maria, the love of their lives, Manolo ends up in the Land of the Dead in “The Book of Life”, an animated film by Dreamworks. With the help of his family, Manolo must travel through the land to get back home and save Maria. The movie “Coco”, an animated Disney Pixar production, is about a young boy named Miguel who wants to follow his dream of being a musician. In doing so, Miguel finds himself traveling through the Land of the Dead during

Discussion Issues and Questions for, Across a Hundred Mountains, by Reyna Grande Author’s web site: http://www.reynagrande.com/ This novel is partially based on the author’s childhood of poverty and personal fears of abandonment when her parents left her and her siblings with grandparents to find work on “the other side.” As Grande has shared in interviews about the book, she wanted to tell the story of those who are left behind. The story illustrates the overlapping influences of women’s