Research Question

As of now, my main Research Question has developed to:

How can folklore figures and the lessons of their stories transcend to modern social issues in today’s society? Can figures such as La Llorona from Latin America provide logical reasoning to such conflicts?

Sources:

Delgado, Richard, and Jean Stefancic. “Lessons From Mexican Folklore: An Essay on  U.S.                                Immigration Policy, Child Separation, and La Llorona.” University of Pittsburgh Law Review,                 vol. 81, no. 2, University of Pittsburgh, 2019, p. 287–, doi:10.5195/lawreview.2019.675.

Hall, Anne-Marie. “Keeping La Llorona Alive in the Shadow of Cortés: What an Examination of                         Literacy in Two Mexican Schools Can Teach U.S. Educators.” Bilingual Research Journal, vol.             30, no. 2, Taylor & Francis Group, 2006, pp. 385–406, doi:10.1080/15235882.2006.10162882.

Luis fernando Gómez R. “Cleófilas and La Llorona: Latin Heroines Against Patriarchal Marginalisation         in ‘El Arroyo de La Llorona’, a Short Story by Sandra Cisneros.” Universitas Humanística, vol.             74, no. 74, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, 2012, pp. 98–119.

Michael T. Taussig. The Devil and Commodity Fetishism in South America. The University of North             Carolina Press, 2010, doi:10.5149/9780807898413_taussig.