There was a woman
Subtitle: La Llorona from folklore to popular culture
By: by Domino Renee Perez.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Austin
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780292718111; 9780292718128
Subjects: Llorona (Legendary character); Legends -- Mexico; Popular culture -- Mexico; Mexican Americans -- Folklore; Mexico -- Folklore; United States -- Folklore
Genres: Folklore.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: A five-hundred-year history : traditional La Llorona tales; title: Revision and the process of critical interrogation; title: Infamy and activism : La Llorona as resistance; title: "Long before the weeping" : re-turning La Llorona; title: La Llorona lore as intercultural dialogue; title: A new generation of cultural/critical readers.