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“From Lost Woman to Third Space Mestiza Maternal Subject: La Llorona as a Metaphor of Transformation,” Larissa M. Mercado-López, California State University, Fresno.
This chapter focuses on the metaphorical treatment of the mestiza mother, drawing from Anzaldúa’s call to reimagine metaphors in ways that are culturally transformative and centering her work on Chicana metaphor in readings of the traditionally oppressive mother figure of “La Llorona” in Chicana prose, fiction, and poetry, to illustrate how mother metaphors in Chicana writings are both profoundly embodied and potentially transformative.
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Mercado-López, L.M. (2016). From Lost Woman to Third Space Mestiza Maternal Subject: La Llorona as a Metaphor of Transformation. In: Herrera, C., Mercado-López, L. (eds) (Re)mapping the Latina/o Literary Landscape. Literatures of the Americas. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-349-94901-4_13
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