Connections: Sor Juana & Concepcion (Image credit: www.nytimes.com) My exploration of Professor Gaspar’s Sor Juana’s Second Dream was prompted by our study of her subsequent novel Calligraphy of the Witch. Adhering to her form of historical fiction, Gaspar’s novel … Continue reading
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The purpose of this final presentation is to provide a deeper investigation into one of the first Chicano-gothic characters we encountered in this class, Concepcion Benavidez of Calligraphy of the Witch. A sequel to Professor Gaspar’s novel Sor Juana’s Second … Continue reading
In her novel Their Dogs Came With Them, Helena Viramontes chronicles the lives of four young women as they navigate their lives through the tumultuous barrio of East Los Angeles in 1960’s. Virmonte’s novel immediately takes on a feminist undercurrent as … Continue reading
When reading Vea’s “God’s Go Begging” I could not help but be reminded of my favorite novel, “The Things They Carried” by Tim O’Brien. O’Brien’s novel is strikingly similar, not only due to the fact that both works revolve around … Continue reading
In her essay “The Gothic Gift of Death in Cherríe Moraga’s The Hungry Woman: AMexican Medea”, Tanya Gonzalez constructs a case in favor of sympathy towards the version of Madea Moraga has constructed in her play. Gonzales argues that Moraga … 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
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