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Sınır Bölgelerinde Yılan Tanrıçalarını Serbest Bırakmak: Cherrie Moraga’nın The Hungry Woman: A Mexican Medea Oyunundaki Feminist Yapı

Year 2018, Issue: 42 Kadın Çalışmaları Özel Sayısı, 149 - 162, 18.09.2018

Abstract

Cherrie Moraga’nın The Hungry Woman: A Mexican Medea adlı
tiyatro oyunu başkarakter Medea’nın başka bir kadınla olan aşk ilişkisi
sebebiyle vatanı Aztlán’dan sürüldüğü bir gelecek distopyasında geçmektedir.
Medea, kız arkadaşı, oğlu ve annesi ile birlikte Aztlán’ın ataerkil otoriteleri
tarafından istenmeyen insanların oluşturduğu bir çorak arazi olan Phoenix’de
yaşamaktadır. Oğlunun yozlaşmış ataerkil bireylerle yaşamak için Aztlán’a geri
dönmesini önlemek ve böylelikle masumiyetini korumak için Medea oğlunu öldürür
ve sürekli olarak çocuğunu öldürmenin hatırası ile işkence çektiği bir akıl
hastanesi odasına hapsedilir. Euripides’in Medea’sının
bu yeniden yorumlanmasında, Moraga eşcinsel öznelerin dışlanması konusunu
irdelemek için bazı mitik, folklorik ve edebi kadın figürlerine değinir. Bu
figürler arasında, çağdaş Chicana feminizmindeki kadın bilincinin sorgulamak
için başlıca kültürel semboller olarak yeniden ortaya çıkarılan Cihuatateo ve
Coatlicue bulunmaktadır. Bu çalışma Moraga’nın bu arketip tanrıçaları nasıl
yeniden sahiplendiğini ve kavradığını Chicana yerli feminizmi bağlamında
incelemektedir.


References

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Liberating Serpentine Goddesses on the Borderlands: Cherrie Moraga’s Feminist Architecture in The Hungry Woman: A Mexican Medea

Year 2018, Issue: 42 Kadın Çalışmaları Özel Sayısı, 149 - 162, 18.09.2018

Abstract

Cherrie Moraga’s The Hungry Woman:
A Mexican Medea
takes place in a future dystopia in which the protagonist
Medea is exiled from her homeland Aztlán due to her love affair with another
woman. She lives with her girlfriend, son and mother in Phoenix—a wasteland
populated by the people unwanted by the patriarchal authorities of Aztlán. In order
to prevent her son’s attempt to get back to Aztlán to live with the corrupted
patriarchs  and thereby to protect his
purity, Medea kills her son and is sent to a prison psychiatric ward tormented
by the memory of her infanticide. In this reinterpretation of Euripides’ Medea, Moraga refers to several
mythical, folkloric and literary female figures to touch upon the exclusion of
the queer subject. Among them, there are female deities such as Cihuatateo and
Coatlicue that have been recuperated as prominent cultural symbols to question
the female consciousness in contemporary Chicana feminism. This paper examines
how Moraga reappropriates and discerns these archetypal goddesses in the
context of Chicana indigenous feminism.

References

  • Alarcón, N. (1990), “Chicana Feminism: In the Tracks of ‘the’ Native Woman”, Cultural Studies, Vol: 4 No: 3, pp. 248-256.
  • Anzaldúa, G. (1987), Borderlands/La Frontera: the New Mestiza, Aunt Lute Books, San Francisco.
  • Arredondo, G. F., et al., eds. (2003), Chicana Feminisms, Duke University Press, Durham.
  • Costa-Malcolm, J. A. (2013). Virgin and Whore no more. Reinventions of the Mythical Maternal in Chicana Drama (Unpublished Doctoral Dissertation), University of Pittsburgh.
  • Cotera, M. P. (1977), The Chicana Feminist, Information Systems Development, Austin.
  • Franco, J. (2004), “The Return of Coatlicue: Mexican Nationalism and the Aztec Past”, Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies, Vol:13, No:2, pp. 205-219.
  • Garcia, A. M. (1997), “Introduction”, Garcia Alma M. and Garcia Mario T. (Eds.) Chicana Feminist Thought: The Basic Historical Writings, Routledge, New York, pp. 1-16.
  • Quinn-Sánchez, K. (2015). “Rejecting National Mores/ There is no Country for Lesbian Latinas,” Identity in Latin American and Latina Literature: The Struggle to Self, Lanhan, Lexington Books, pp. 35-45.
  • Lakey. (2015), “More than Theater: Cherrie Moraga’s The Hungry Woman and the Feminist Phenomenology of Excess”, Robin Truth Goodman (Ed.),Literature and Development of Feminist Theory, Cambridge, New York, pp. 200-213.
  • Lomeli, F. A. (2017), “Introduction: Revisiting the Vision of Aztlán: Origins, Interpretions, and Theory vis-à-vis Fact and Fiction”, Rudolfa Anaya et al (Eds.), Aztlán: Essays on the Chicano Homeland, University of Mexico Press, Albuquerque, pp 1-24.
  • Mirandé, A, Enríquez, E. (1979), La Chicana: The Mexican-American Woman, The Universtiy of Chicago Press, Chicago.
  • Moya P. M. L. (2001), “Chicana Feminism and Postmodernist Theory”, Signs, Vol: 26, No:2, pp. 441-483.
  • Moraga, C. (1993) The Last Generation, South End Press, Boston.--- (2000), “The Hungry Woman: A Mexican Medea”, Marrero, Maria and Svich, Caridad (Eds.), Out of the Fringe: Latino/a Theater and Performance, Theater Communications, New York, pp. 289-363.
  • Oliver-Rotger, M. A. (2003). “The Border as Dystopia: Cherrie Moraga’s The Hungry Woman”, Battlegrounds and Crossroads Social: Social and Imaginary in Writings by Chicanas, Rodopi, Amsterdam, pp. 265-284.
  • Perez, D. R. (2008), There was a Woman: La Llorona from Folklore to Popular Culture. University of Texas Press, Austin.
  • Ventura, G. B. (2008), “Aztlán”, Nicholás Kanellos (Ed.), The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Latino Literature, Greenwood Press, Westport, pp.102-104.
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Primary Language English
Journal Section 2018
Authors

Evrim Ersöz Koç 0000-0003-4172-506X

Publication Date September 18, 2018
Submission Date July 12, 2018
Acceptance Date September 4, 2018
Published in Issue Year 2018 Issue: 42 Kadın Çalışmaları Özel Sayısı

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APA Ersöz Koç, E. (2018). Liberating Serpentine Goddesses on the Borderlands: Cherrie Moraga’s Feminist Architecture in The Hungry Woman: A Mexican Medea. Sosyal Ve Beşeri Bilimler Araştırmaları Dergisi, 19(42 Kadın Çalışmaları Özel Sayısı), 149-162.

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