My blog posts focused mainly on La llorona, like many others, however, I decided to focus more on modern views of La Llorona in television and film. I chose to focus on La Llorona because growing up I can remember … Continue reading
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Synopsis, Review, and Analysis of “Her Cry: La Llorona Investigation” I selected this film to watch and review because Dr. Perez recommended it as an option for a recent interpretation of la llorona in a film, and also … Continue reading
In this blog post, I’m basically going to discuss how in most of the books that we read in this semester, except for Their Dogs Came With Them and Gods Go Begging (though it can be argued for them), there … Continue reading
La llorona is a widely known story across different countries, ethnicities, and has multiple origins, but the basic premise holds similar in most of them: of a woman who kills her children and then commits suicide because her husband … Continue reading
After only reading the first 100 pages, I have to say that I am really enjoying this book, mainly because it is structured in a way that each character’s story is told as it being the main story, but … 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