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Mexican and Central American Female Archetypes & Protagonists
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Mexican
and
Central
American
Female
Archetypes
&
Protagonists
Performer(s)
Alegria
,
Claribel
;
Belli
,
Giaconda
;
Naranjo
,
Carmen
.
Subject 1
Central
American
poetry
--
20th
century
.
Subject 2
Women
poets
.
Subject 3
Political
poetry
.
Abstract
Three
panelists
discuss
female
archtypes
and
protagonists
in
Latin
American
culture
,
society
, and
politics
.
Major
military
protagonists
and
mesoamerican
,
European
, and
religious
archetypes
are
investigated
regarding
their
development
.
Content
0:12
-
Tape
begins
mid-sentence
, with
Claribel
Alegria
talking
about
patriarchy
in
Central
American
society
,
literature
, and
archetypes
.
Briefly
discusses
several
Central
American
dictators
and
dynasties
. Then
discusses
in
more
detail
archetypal
females
of
mythologies
, and the
history
behind
social
construction
of them,
including
La
Ciguanaba
,
La
Malincha
,
Rafaela
(daughter
of
military
father
,
El
Castillo)
,
Lucia
Matamoras
, and
Blanca
Rous
(sp)
.
7:10
-
Alegria
talks
about
how the
revolutionary
movements
in
Guatemala
,
Nicaragua
, and
El
Salvador
changed
womens
'
place
in those
societies
in the
1970’s
and
80’s
. She
discusses
Commandantes
Eugenia
and
Ana
Maria
,
Marianella
Garcia
Villas
,
Guadalupe
Martinez
, and
other
politically
important
women
,
all
very
briefly
.
13:25
-
Carmen
Naranjo
speaks
in
Spanish
,
translated
by an
unidentified
woman
.
Discusses
viewing
Central
America
as a
mixed
society
being
key
to
understanding
archetypes
there.
Extreme
humility
of
women
a
key
part
of that
culture
.
Briefly
discusses
Eve
as an
archetype
there from the
Catholic
church
,
Penelope
from
Spanish
society
, the
Virgin
Mary
,
Dante's
Beatrice
, and
Cervantes
'
Dulcinea
.
Discusses
democracy
and
egalitarian
movements
in
Costa
Rica
,
Ibsen's
Nora
, and
Latin
American
views
on the
North
American
Women's
movement
.
Translator
sings
a
song
of
La
Llorona
in
Spanish
.
Naranjo
mentions
“Big
Mama”
as the
biggest
female
archetype
in
Latin
America
, and the
lover
as
another
significant
one
.
28:18
-
Giaconda
Belli
discusses
archetypes
within
the
Jungian
conception
of a
collective
unconscious
,
comparing
the
Great
Mother
archetype
of
western
culture
(the
Empress
of the
tarot)
with
ancient
mesoamerican
cultures
--
the
Aztecs
,
Mayans
, etc.
Mayan
Ixchel
as
very
similar
to the
Empress
.
Aztec
Coatlicue
,
mother
of the
god
of the
sun
, as
very
similar
to the
Virgin
Mary
.
Gods
related
to
animal
figures
--
jaguars
and
eagles
.
37:20
-
Belli
discusses
how the
focus
there on the
differences
between
the
sexes
was not
just
machismo
;
it
was how
ancient
cultures
saw
the
complementarity
of the
sexes
,
sun/moon
,
day/night
, etc. But
still
rooted
in a
male
vision
of the
world
,
men's
fear
of
women's
mystery
(ability
to
give
birth
,
etc.)
.
Serpent
as
synthesizing
both
male
and
female
in
itself
.
Aztec's
Quetzacoatl
, a
winged
serpent
. How the
eagle-condor
imagery
evolved
to
represent
the
masculine
need
to
control
.
Earlier
,
male
and
female
were
treated
as
completely
complementary
,
both
necessary
to
sustain
life
.
42:00
-
Belli
discusses
the
Amazon
archetype
, the
woman
who
rebels
,
leading
to an
evolvement
of the
Mother
archetype
in
Latin
America
today
.
Discusses
in
particular
how
it's
developing
and
plays
out
in
Nicaragua
.
46:30
-
Side
change
.
48:10
-
Panel
opens
to
Questions
.
48:40
-
Bobbie
Hawkins
asks
panelists
to
address
themselves
as
writers
within
this
cultural
context
.
58:10
-
Question
on their
roles
as
political
activists
and how that
relates
to their
writing
.
68:40
-
Comment
on how
African-Americans
and
lesbians
get
excluded
in the US, and she
thinks
they also
did
on this
panel
,
re
: the
Amazon
archetype
discussion
.
70:10
-
Question
asking
for
panelists
'
thoughts
on
apparent
equality
and the
glass
ceiling
in the US.
73:40
-
Anne
Waldman
ends
the
panel
,
makes
announcement
re
:
schedule
changes
.
74:30
-
Allen
Ginsberg
talks
about
a
spiritual
teacher
who's
coming
and the
maitri
rooms
,
until
the
sound
cuts
out
.
Type of Event
panel
Engineer's Notes
Mono tape Sound spikes at 20 min. About 12 sec. at the beginning and 10 sec. at the end. Most of the volume set lower than normal to a
Date Recorded
1990-07-15
File Format
mp3
Performance Length
1:16:42
Rights Information
Copyright
release
given
to
Naropa
University
for the
purposes
of
preservation
,
marketing
and
educational
use
.
All
other
rights
reserved
to
individual
performers
.
Department
Writing
Publisher
Allen Ginsberg Library and Naropa University Archives
Type
Sound
Language
eng
File Name
90P074.mp3
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