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Gloria Anzaldúa’s New Mestiza Consciousness Through Kristevan Female Writing and the Re-Shaping of Divine Maternal Archetypes

Year: 2024

Type: article

Abstract: Faced with the hegemony of racial superiority, the oppression of gender dominance, and the demands of religious homogeneity, Mexican American Gloria E. Anzaldúa proposes a New Mestiza Consciousness that seeks to achieve a multifaceted transcendence of La Frontera (Borderlands). Using Krsiteva’s semiotics and mythology-based feminism as a theoretical guide, this paper will analyze the cultural, gender, ethnic, and religious manifestations of New Mestiza Consciousness and the logic behind this consciousness in terms of women’s writing in the Chicana women’s literary community and the re-shaping of the maternal mythological archetype in indigenous culture.

Source: Humanities

DOI: 10.3390/h13060159

Author: Yuanjiang Wang

Institution: Beijing Foreign Studies University

Language: English

Topic: Latin American and Latino Studies

Subfield: Cultural Studies

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

SDG: Gender equality

Open Access status: gold

Estimated APC paid: $1,591