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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"La Llorona"”.
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La Llorona Don't Swim The L.A River: A Trickster's Guide To The Poetics Of The Pit
<p><em>La Llorona Don’t Swim The LA River</em> is a collection of poems that explore the issues of growing up in East LA as a young, bilingual Chicana. These poems are an attempt to capture my experiences through story telling by blending Spanish, English, street slang, and the casual spoken …
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Reflections of Other/Reflections of Self
… The preface, “Reflejos y Reflexiones” (translated: Images and Thoughts), addresses the issues of writing the cultural or gendered Other; these issues include methodology, literary colonialism, a dialogue between works, and creating distance through defamiliarizing the self. “Perennials” is …
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Listen to the River: Dolores, Ophelia, and Female Resistance in Opera
… folktale that my opera, <em>The Tragedy of La Llorona</em>, draws inspiration from plays on many of the same tropes historically found in female characters in opera including madness, sexuality, and lack of agency. This led to research into the portrayal of women in opera as part of my …
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Redefining America through opera: Representations of Latin/o Americans and a new tradition
This dissertation examines Latina/o opera composition in the United States and argues that starting from the mid 1980s to the present, the bourgeoning trend to produce operas of the Latina/o and Latin American experience is indicative of the development of an emergent sub-genre of American operatic …