Analysis Of Caridad And La Loca's '

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The idea of gender equality was brought to societies attention towards the end of 17th century and continued to surface as more women decided to revolutionize and support causes in favor of women’s right. They faced cultural believes suggesting that a woman’s job revolved around domestic responsibilities and family care. By the 20th century they were victorious in gaining suffrage and some of societies acceptance towards gender equality increased. However, in the long list of feminist and suffragist, Chicana’s are not mentioned nor recognized as part of this female movement. As a result, Ana Castillo uses the term of Chicana feminist to reflect her notion of Xicanisma, which ultimately denotes the disregard of Chicana ideology and overall importance. …show more content…

For example, Caridad experiences countless nightmares that reflect her traumatic event of being left by the man she loved and attacked by multiple men. On page 79, Castillo describes Caridad and La Loca’s dream of the malogra, which is a monster made of cotton that suffocates children. Sofi states,” That was the malogra, ‘jita! It was looking for you (Castillo, 79). While La Local dreams a less dark version of the malogra, Caridad nightmare is full of terror and darkness further differentiating between the magnitude of what is haunting them. Additionally, this alternative epistemology of dream interpretation depicts western beliefs as more strict and reliant on facts rather than intuition. For instance, the nightmares Caridad continues to have are due to the turbulence men have created in her life. As a result, she decides to leave the town of Tome and leave in a cave where she plans on self-healing and curing her inner spirit. When she is brought back home, she decides to shower before she goes back home. The attendant who helps her recognizes her and praises her gifts. Although hesitant to acceptant the compliments, Caridad realizes that the attendant is a women who she had been searching for. To her, this is a sign confirming that her intuition to leave the town of Tome was the right path of action. Again, Castillo depicts this alternative epistemology as reasoning behind the actions of the characters of the novel while denoting the rejection of these notions and ideas in a western

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