Ciguapa Unbound: Tranceformations of AfroLatinx Feminist Epistemologies
E-Building, E-242 31-10 Thomson Avenue, Long Island City, NY, United StatesThis talk begins with Dr. Omaris Zamora's own critically fabulated story of La Cigüapa, a Dominican folktale figure similar to Mexico's La Llorona, as an exercise for thinking about her character and the historical context in which she is initially imagined. Dr. Zamora offers a transnational examination of this figure against the backdrop of colonialism, […]