This article is about the Chicana literary mythotype. For the opera, see La Loca (opera).
La Loca is a literary mythotype of the mad heroine found in Chicana literature related to La Llorona. Authors using the figure include Ana Castillo, Sandra Cisneros and Monica Palacios, as well as in the poem "La Loca de la Raza Cósmica" by the pseudonymous La Chrisx.[1][2]
La Loca in Ana Castillo's So Far from God is an outsider from the community;[3] she dies at age three, but is miraculously resurrected revered like a saint.[4][5]
^ed. Tey Diana Rebolledo The Chronicles of Panchita Villa and Other Guerrilleras - 2005 Page 116 "Mi Vida Loca - In this essay I want to briefly sketch out the cultural and societal boundaries perceived in the figure of La Loca, the mad heroine so often seen in Chicana literature, how her symbolic space is constructed by Chicana writers,... These are only a few of the many representations of locas; we could also include, for example, “La Llorona Loca: The Other Side” by Monica Palacios and the figure of Petra in Margarita Cota-Cárdenas's Puppet. "
^The Chicana/o Cultural Studies Reader - Page 174 Angie Chabram-Dernersesian - 2006 "From another perspective "Crazy Queen/Woman/La Loca" offers more than just another invitation for Chicanas to rewrite the cause/ La Causa by incorporating difference, here gender, into the prevailing discourses of oppression and ...
^Mills, Fiona. “Creating a Resistant Chicana Aesthetic: The Queer Performativity of Ana Castillo's So Far from God reprinted as essay Locating Gender in Modernism: The Outsider Female - Geetha Ramanathan - 2012 Page 126 "Fiona Mills also sees La Loca as being shunned by the community, an outsider who does not follow the community's script. She argues that “the Tome community renders La Loca the site of that which they regard as abject—namely, death, ..."
^ Nadine Gebhardt Female Mythologies in Contemporary Chicana Literature 2007 - Page 89 "The youngest daughter, La Loca (the crazy one), dies at age three, but is miraculously resurrected and henceforth revered like a saint. Except for La Loca, ... For the contemporary Chicana, she can also be a figure of comfort and hope."
^Deborah L. Madsen Understanding Contemporary Chicana Literature 2000- Page 99 "Her work places emphasis upon traditional Chicana cultural practices as an assertion of cultural identity and resistance to assimilation. These practices include cooking — for example, La Loca's recipes in the novel So Far from God — and the ..."
Monica Palacios, as well as in the poem "LaLoca de la Raza Cósmica" by the pseudonymous La Chrisx. LaLoca in Ana Castillo's So Far from God is an outsider...
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laLoca) to the National Exhibition of Fine Arts and was awarded the Medal of Honor. In 1879, the Spanish Senate then commissioned him to create La Rendición...
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viajes. In 2003, she published what she considers one of her best works, LaLoca de la Casa (The Lunatic of the House). This book won the Qué Leer Prize for...
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