Sexo e raça na virgem mestiça: imagens guadalupanas e feminismo chicano

Abstract

This article intends to rise a few identitary questions in relation to the chicana culture. The analysis is based on the appropriation of the images of Guadalupe made by chicano artists and intellectuals. The chicano feminist speech, which is built over the image of the Virgin of Guadalupe shows the stains of the process between borders in which is (un) located the chicano experience. It is configured by racial, class, gender and sexual cleavages. It is installed in a place of speech located between fatherly power and the voice of north-american feminism. The feminism is not enough to understand racial and gender matters or the aparison of the new mestizas (as the author Anzaldúa defines the chicano feminist). They frequently appropriate themselves of the image of the Virgin of Guadalupe, subverting its senses in order to spread the power of its political cry out.