Domino Renee Perez is Associate Professor in the Department of English and the Center for Mexican American Studies at the University of Texas at Austin.

"This book is genius... This is interdisciplinary scholarship at its finest ... that seamlessly crosses and blurs the methodological boundaries of ethnography, cultural critique, feminist critique, literary analysis, visual analysis, and popular culture studies... I wanted to read every word of it." Alicia Gaspar de Alba, Professor of Chicana/o Studies and English, University of California at Los Angeles

• PrefaceAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Haunting Our Cultural ImaginationChapter 1. A Five-Hundred-Year History: Traditional La Llorona TalesChapter 2. Revision and the Process of Critical InterrogationChapter 3. Infamy and Activism: La Llorona as ResistanceChapter 4. "Long Before the Weeping": Re-Turning La LloronaChapter 5. La Llorona Lore as Intercultural DialogueChapter 6. A New Generation of Cultural/Critical ReadersConclusion: Folklore as Critical LensNotesBibliographyIndexPermissions Acknowledgments

Domino Renee Perez is Associate Professor in the Department of English and the Center for Mexican American Studies at the University of Texas at Austin.

"This book is genius... This is interdisciplinary scholarship at its finest ... that seamlessly crosses and blurs the methodological boundaries of ethnography, cultural critique, feminist critique, literary analysis, visual analysis, and popular culture studies... I wanted to read every word of it." Alicia Gaspar de Alba, Professor of Chicana/o Studies and English, University of California at Los Angeles

• PrefaceAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Haunting Our Cultural ImaginationChapter 1. A Five-Hundred-Year History: Traditional La Llorona TalesChapter 2. Revision and the Process of Critical InterrogationChapter 3. Infamy and Activism: La Llorona as ResistanceChapter 4. "Long Before the Weeping": Re-Turning La LloronaChapter 5. La Llorona Lore as Intercultural DialogueChapter 6. A New Generation of Cultural/Critical ReadersConclusion: Folklore as Critical LensNotesBibliographyIndexPermissions Acknowledgments

Domino Renee Perez is Associate Professor in the Department of English and the Center for Mexican American Studies at the University of Texas at Austin.

"This book is genius... This is interdisciplinary scholarship at its finest ... that seamlessly crosses and blurs the methodological boundaries of ethnography, cultural critique, feminist critique, literary analysis, visual analysis, and popular culture studies... I wanted to read every word of it." Alicia Gaspar de Alba, Professor of Chicana/o Studies and English, University of California at Los Angeles

• PrefaceAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Haunting Our Cultural ImaginationChapter 1. A Five-Hundred-Year History: Traditional La Llorona TalesChapter 2. Revision and the Process of Critical InterrogationChapter 3. Infamy and Activism: La Llorona as ResistanceChapter 4. "Long Before the Weeping": Re-Turning La LloronaChapter 5. La Llorona Lore as Intercultural DialogueChapter 6. A New Generation of Cultural/Critical ReadersConclusion: Folklore as Critical LensNotesBibliographyIndexPermissions Acknowledgments