Weeping Woman : La Llorona and Other Stories

by Villanueva, Alma Luz

• ISBN13: 9780927534383
• ISBN10: 092753438X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1994-05-01
• Publisher: Bilingual Review Pr

Summary

Fiction. Alma Luz Villanueva's collection of short stories, WEEPING WOMAN: LA LLORONA AND OTHER STORIES, presents a vision as dangerous and as compelling as a solar eclipse. Readers of these stories may find Villanueva's world very disturbing, torn between the instinct to look tragedy in the face and the need to turn away. The characters in WEEPING WOMAN live in an environment ravaged by violence, racism, and sexism, all forces that distort and, in some cases, destroy. Villanueva's vision is not entirely pessimistic, however. Through their voices and their actions, these characters reveal that they do possess the strength and spirituality to triumph.

Table of Contents

La Llorona/Weeping Woman	1	(7)
The Virgins	8	(6)
There Was A Time	14	(7)
Place of the Dead	21	(4)
Real Rainbows	25	(5)
Birth of a Shell	30	(7)
The Burden	37	(7)
The Edge of Darkness	44	(9)
Merman	53	(5)
A Beautiful, Haphazard Design	58	(7)
Goddess	65	(4)
Free Women	69	(12)
Sabra	81	(8)
Empty	89	(8)
Her Spiral Shell	97	(3)
A Prostitute Compassionate Am I	100	(5)
The Others	105	(4)
Virgin Birth	109	(5)
Karma	114	(4)
People of the Dog	118	(4)
The Empress of Japan	122	(7)
The Sand Castle	129	(4)
The Price of Wonder	133	(5)
El Alma/The Soul, One	138	(6)
El Alma/The soul, Two	144	(7)
El Alma/The Soul, Three	151	(5)
El Alma/The Soul, Four	156