%0 Journal Article
%T Cle車filas and La Llorona: Latin Heroines Against Patriarchal Marginalisation in ＆El arroyo de la Llorona＊, a Short Story by Sandra Cisneros
%A Luis fernando G車mez R
%J Universitas Human赤stica
%D 2012
%I Pontificia Universidad Javeriana
%X This paper discusses the short story ＆El arroyo de la Llorona＊ by female Mexican-American writer Sandra Cisneros. In it the main character, Cle車filas, is subject to social, emotional and economic dependence on her husband, according to the cultural constructs on female identity that are still relevant in Latin-American patriarchal societies. Due to her circumstances of complete marginalisation and domestic violence, Cle車filas chooses to avoid reality, and this avoidance not only costs her mental well-being,but also annuls her will to make changes to her suffocating life. Oppressed by a patriarchal system,Cle車filas develops an unusual interest in the Llorona legend and, through the remembrance of this myth, these two female figures become symbols of resistance and liberation. In the story, the Llorona ceases to be the denigrated woman tradition has always made her out to be, and becomes the image of a contemporary heroine capable of challenging radical patriarchal norms.
%K Latin Women
%K Patriarchal Society
%K Marginalisation
%K Psychic Subjugation
%K Resistance
%K Liberation.
%U http://revistas.javeriana.edu.co/index.php/univhumanistica/article/view/3644/3181