ENGL 3040 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: El Otro, North American Free Trade Agreement, Chicano Nationalism
1 Dec 2016
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First half on our lady and gloria anzaldua, second half on cactus blood and across a. Reconfiguration of the virgin de guadalupe to feminist potential. Reclaiming brown female body through exposing of the body. Uses iconography (roses, stars, shawl, etc. ) but redefines them. Chicana aesthetics of reclaiming the female body for liberation. Queer buttery initially used to reclaim land is used here to reclaim the body, as seen in articles using the butterfly in relation to the body was perceived as sinful by the church. Dismembered body on the shawl ( rebellious daughter ) as a body both remembered mentally and physically. Create framework of continuing indigenous cultures rather than replacing it. Goal to make architypes whole: architypes/metaphors of la llorana, la maliche, virgin de guadalupe, architypes have real power, trying to take architypes that govern the lives of chicanas and change it. Virgin de guadalupe is the most powerful, but also the most oppressive.
