The Legend of La Llorona (Magill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Rudolfo Anaya
- First Published: 1984
- Type of Work: Novella
- Genres: Long fiction, Novella
- Subjects: Women, Folklore, Sixteenth century, Mexico or Mexicans, Aztecs
The Legend of La Llorona, part of Anaya's shift in the 1980's away from longer narrative to more restricted genres such as poetry, drama, children's stories, and short fiction, appropriates the story of one of Mexico's most reviled historic figures. In a slender narrative (barely seventy pages), Anaya examines the pre-Colombian culture at the very moment that marked its eventual extinction: the invasion by European conquistadores, from their arrival in 1519 to their entrance in November, 1521, into Tenochtitlán. In focusing on Malinche, the beautiful Aztec woman whose felicity...
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