There Was a Woman : La Llorona from Folklore to Popular Culture /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Perez, Domino Renee, 1967-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Austin : University of Texas Press, 2008.
Edition:1st ed.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Popular culture.
Mexican Americans.
Llorona (Legendary character)
Legends.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Folklore & Mythology.
Americains d'origine mexicaine > Folklore.
Culture populaire > Mexique.
Llorona (Personnage legendaire)
Mexican Americans > Folklore.
Popular culture > Mexico.
Legends > Mexico.
United States.
Mexico.
United States > Folklore.
Mexico > Folklore.
Folklore.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • A five-hundred-year history : traditional La Llorona tales
  • Revision and the process of critical interrogation
  • Infamy and activism : La Llorona as resistance
  • "Long before the weeping" : re-turning La Llorona
  • La Llorona lore as intercultural dialogue
  • A new generation of cultural/critical readers.

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