Find sources defining and discussing uncanny, especially as relevant to the gothic. Please cite your sources and cite each only once. Put your response under the comments of this post. (Don’t forget to engage on Twitter.) (Image Credit: http://www.flickr.com/photos/anneliekeb/) … Continue reading
Monthly Archives: February 2014
I read the article Looking for the Insatiable Woman, which was posted on the blog. I found it to be very interesting because the reader gets to be inside the author Cherrie Moraga’s head a bit. She talks about the importance … Continue reading
A fairly consistent response to Moraga’s The Hungry Woman has been an exploration of the feminist perspective through which the classic Chicano legend of La Llorona is told in combination with the Greek mythology of Madea. A focal point of … Continue reading
When first reading The Hungry Women, and Medea’s character, we are quick to judge that Medea is simply an unstable, delirious mother who ultimately kills her son out of anger and abnormal psychological behavior toward her ex-husband. As infanticide seems … Continue reading
In our study of Gaspar de Alba’s Calligraphy of the Witch, we were continually reminded of the historical nature of the novel. This aspect of the text was reiterated when Gaspar de Alba spoke in front of the class and … Continue reading
The Hungry Woman definitely possesses many of the same elements that we have been looking over and consider to be Chicano Gothic literature. Firstly, it is made clear from the beginnning that Medea is a curandera, as Ultima was, but not … Continue reading
The Hungry Woman expresses Chicano sentiments along with certain gothic elements. At first when looking at the character lists, I noticed similarities with characters in Bless Me, Ultima. Medea is listed as a curandera similar to Ultima, Chac-mool, a young … Continue reading
In “The Hungry Woman”, author Cherrie Moraga daringly explores the classical story of Medea through the devastating experiences of a Chicana activist. Although set in different scenarios, the chicana version borrows greatly from Euripides’ play and manages to truthfully depict … Continue reading
The play from Moraga has many gothic, Chicano/a and Greek elements. Firstly, it is the story of Medea, beginning from her sorrow from getting divorced from Jason because he cheated on her with another woman to her having to question … Continue reading
One of elements that I found intriguing about this play was how the presence of corn was interwoven in the fabric of the story. We see it right away in the first scene of the play when Luna and Chac-Mool … Continue reading