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The New Mestiza Consciousness: Unveiling Surface and Hidden Metaphors

The concept of New Mestiza Consciousness as discussed by Anzaldúa delves into the psychological, sexual, and spiritual aspects, exploring surface and less obvious metaphors like the Virgen de Guadalupe, La Malinche, serpent, and eagle. It challenges societal constructs, reinterprets history, and reconstructs female identity to embrace balance and integration of both male and female energies.

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The New Mestiza Consciousness: Unveiling Surface and Hidden Metaphors

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  1. Anzaldúa and the New Mestiza Consciousness Built prior to surface metaphors & less obvious Metaphors Conceptual Psychological Sexual Spiritual Surface Virgen de Guadalupe La Malinche Serpent Eagle Named, exterior, comparison

  2. Resistance • Mark of the beast • Society/male constructs • Good is white/male • Bad is dark/female • Shadow beast • Forbidden inner knowledge • Myth: safety in the box

  3. Reinterpretation • A fusion of opposites • Reinterpret history • Balance of both male and female • Heaven and the underworld • Mita y mita (half and half) • Homosexual power (access to different worlds)

  4. Reconstruction • Reinvent the female identity • Coexist with the oppressor • La facultad • All-inclusive metaphor • Nepantilism: Aztec word meaning torn between ways (conscious decision)

  5. The New Mestiza • Kenneth – Perhaps this is where you may want to begin your presentation - the connection between the article and the reading. • After you have inserted your portion – would you mind emailing it to me and I will save to my thumbnail for our class presentation. • Thanks.

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