This course blog is now an archive of the work the students in this Loyola Marymount University class did on the Chicana / Chicano Gothic. They did a variety of projects and discussed a number of issues connecting Chicana/o literature … Continue reading
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The color white for the most part denotes positivity and overall goodness. White can be associated with light, innocence, purity, and virginity. In western cultures, white is associated with the heavens, safety, faith, spirituality, sincerity, cleanliness, softness and perfection. Furthermore, … Continue reading
Latin American families are generally Catholic. I personally never had much faith and it was even more exhausted by my family’s faith and how it had habituated them. As I grew out of my faith and into my major, philosophy, … Continue reading
In this entry I really took the opportunity of telling a Dionysian story of an internal struggle that may result from the cultural strife that is being an immigrant’s son with a foreign name. This is the most autobiographical of my … Continue reading
El Caballo Blanco In December of 1979, a group of friends known as the wealthy boys witnessed two people get murdered. Seeing someone get shot is not unusual in the street of Guatemala, however, in La Colonia El … Continue reading
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For our final projects, we decided to document the gothic stories from Guatemala. We decided to use La LLorona’s stories as our foundation to our final project. When initially discussing our research project, we found similarities in the element of … Continue reading
El Cadejo The legend of El Cadejo is a story told among the drunks and lowlifes of Guatemala. According to legends in Guatemala, El Cadejo is a spooky animal that appears on out of nowhere. The most popular version of … Continue reading
La LLorona in Guatemala Guatemala, the home of urban legends. Where children are afraid to walk home at night, not because they fear they will get mugged, but because they know who is out there looking for them. On a … Continue reading
Tikal Tikal is hidden in the city of Petén. It was the home to many Mayans before the Spanish conquered Guatemala. The Mayans were known to have human and animal sacrifices as part of their ceremonies. When the Spanish arrived, … Continue reading