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Anzaldúa and the New Mestiza Consciousness. Built prior to surface metaphors & less obvious. Metaphors Conceptual Psychological Sexual Spiritual Surface Virgen de Guadalupe La Malinche Serpent Eagle. Named, exterior, comparison. Resistance. Mark of the beast Society/male constructs
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Anzaldúa and the New Mestiza Consciousness Built prior to surface metaphors & less obvious Metaphors Conceptual Psychological Sexual Spiritual Surface Virgen de Guadalupe La Malinche Serpent Eagle Named, exterior, comparison
Resistance • Mark of the beast • Society/male constructs • Good is white/male • Bad is dark/female • Shadow beast • Forbidden inner knowledge • Myth: safety in the box
Reinterpretation • A fusion of opposites • Reinterpret history • Balance of both male and female • Heaven and the underworld • Mita y mita (half and half) • Homosexual power (access to different worlds)
Reconstruction • Reinvent the female identity • Coexist with the oppressor • La facultad • All-inclusive metaphor • Nepantilism: Aztec word meaning torn between ways (conscious decision)
The New Mestiza • Kenneth – Perhaps this is where you may want to begin your presentation - the connection between the article and the reading. • After you have inserted your portion – would you mind emailing it to me and I will save to my thumbnail for our class presentation. • Thanks.