Theoretical Frame

                   

Coming up with a theoretical frame for my paper took time as it was difficult to try to combine the cultural ideas of La Llorona into a specific topic. Ultimately, the key words that I narrowed down to were the words "feminism" and "transformation". Both of these words combined with helpful terms such as "control device" and "Latin Woman" come to help build the research paper on the basis that through her transformation, La Llorona has become a source of symbolism that challenges the social norm by promoting proactive changes in the perspective of individuals. This specifically correlates to the ideas that La Llorona is not just a woman who takes children. Ideas about her can start changing. I specifically include a quote from Fernando Gomez's piece to fully explore more into the act of feminism and the correlation to the Latin woman by specifically identifying that, "Tradition has written her as a destructive and malevolent ancestral figure that has transgressed the indisputable role of the Latin woman" (Gomez 111). Setting this idea off into an important basis for the paper allows me to further explore this idea of a transformation. When I further look into a piece from Larissa Mercado-Lopez "From Lost Woman to Third Space Mestiza Maternal Subject: La Llorona as a Metaphor of Transformation", I find that through the transformation of metaphors, women, are allowed to further explore their identities. These terms allow me to fully grasp on the changes of La Llorona while at the same time exploring the reasons as to why each is so important.