The Three Archetypal Roles for Women in Mexican and Chicana Cultures

In Chicana / o culture, the three female forms of La Malinche, La Llorona and La Virgen de Gudalupe separate the cultural boundaries of women's behavior. Gloria Anzaldua announced at Borderlands / La Frontera, La gente Chicana tiene tres madres. Lorona looking for a virgin mother, Guadalupe, abandoned rape mother, La Chingada, and a mother who lost her child is a combination of the other two people. Guadalupe made us polite and patient, la Chingada made me feel ashamed of India, la Llorona has suffered us for a long time.

Two powerful Mexican female prototypes, La Virgen de Guadalupe and La Malinche, had a strong influence on the identity of Mexican American women. I will focus on the theories of intellectual Octavio Paz and Chicana feminist Gloria Anzardua in Mexican men and other critics to clarify the limits of these prototypes for traditional Mexican women. On House of Mango Street, young protagonist Esperanza Cordero observed her family and the woman in the city as her only role model. She stated that they can not challenge the traditional role of traditional Mexican women and can not experience the effects of patriarchal structure in their own life.

Mango Street women and women Hollering Creek Before studying how women try to redefine the prototype of women's temperament in their culture, the historical structure of these icons and their symbols It should be analyzed. As stated in the preface, due to the strict cultural boundary, Chicana is defined as a virgin or prostitute. Because the feminine duality is biased towards spades, any woman's personality is destined to eternal confrontation and self restraint. The suffering of Mexican-American women seems to arise from her unrealistic and objective expression in American and Mexican culture. Thus, until the cultural turn, the concept of acceptable behavior in Tikana society originated mainly from texts written by men. Since this throws some doubt, I will try to answer them during analysis. To what extent does Chicana have it? Can anyone build a positive self-image without working together?