Female Mythologies in Contemporary Chicana Literature

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By:"Nadine Gebhardt"
Published on 2007-08 by GRIN Verlag

Thesis (M.A.) from the year 2005 in the subject American Studies - Literature, grade: 1,0, Ernst Moritz Arndt University of Greifswald, 83 entries in the bibliography, language: English, comment: Diese Magisterarbeit stellt eine kritische Untersuchung weiblicher bzw. feministischer Mythologien und der damit eng zusammenhangenden Gender- und Identitatsproblematik in der zeitgenossischen Literatur der Chicanas, US-amerikanische Staatsburgerinnen mexikanischer Abstammung, dar. Die Arbeit selbst wurde auf Englisch verfasst, eine deutsche Zusammenfassung ist im Anhang zu finden., abstract: In Mexican-American/ Chicano culture, feminine archetypes from the Mexican tradition play an important role for woman's subjectivity. Traditionally, such archetypes epitomize Catholic-patriarchal constructions of womanhood. Idolized by the figures of the Virgin of Guadalupe, La Malinche, and La Llorona, the most prevailing representations of female sexuality and motherhood evolve around the passive virgin, the sinful seductress, and the traitorous mother. Along the lines of Chicana feminism, the traditional definitions of these feminine archetypes can be seen as promoting an image of woman that is detrimental to female subjectivity. Although there are three figures, these archetypes evoke a binary opposition that defines woman as either \

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