doesn't kill the children but she abandons them. She is vengeful; she kills/abandons children to avenge her broken heart. Finally, she is foolish: she kills the children and regrets doing so only when it is too late. Chicana writers such as Sandra Cisneros, Gloria Anzaldúa, Helena Maria Viramontes and Ana Castillo "have undertaken to create not only rich and immensely variegated accounts of women's experience, but alternative versions of Chicano culture." La Llorona (la Malinche) has been re-created as a woman who stands against injustices (in race, gender, and class). In modern Llorona stories, the male lover's dishonesty is emphasized, he is revealed as "a husband who not only deprives her of basic economic needs, but is also a slob, an emotional invalid, an adulterer and, worst of all, a batterer". La Llorona is now a protective, loving mother figure, strong not victimized: "Cleofilas, the Mexican protagonist of "Woman Hollering Creek," regains her voice by transforming herself from a stereotypical Llorona figure, a weeping victim, to a Gritona, a hollering warrior". These redefinitions of Chicana archetypes allow "us to see a culturally specific genealogy rooted within pre-Conquest, pre-Aztec feminine representations." They provide Chicanas of today with role models that can be useful to them. These are strong women, resistant to cultural, racist, and sexual male domination, they are not voiceless victims. See also Gloria Anzaldúa Sandra Cisneros Cherrie Moraga Ana Castillo Lorna Dee Cervantes Sonia Gutiérrez Pat Mora Bernice Zamora Francisca Flores Yolanda López Norma Alarcón Rosario Castellanos Chela Sandoval Dorinda Moreno Further reading References Bibliography External links "Chicanas Speak Out" full text at Duke University Chicana feminism