La ciguapa y el ciguapeo
Dominican Myth, Metaphor, and Method
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4196121 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ginetta E B Candelario (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 20 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 100-112 |
| Publication date | 2016-11-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Small Axe A Caribbean Journal of Criticism (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1534-6714 • E-ISSN: 0799-0537 |
| Publisher | Duke University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1215/07990537-3726890 |
| OpenAlex | W2550795224 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 8 |
| References cited | 9 |
This essay considers how the myth of la ciguapa-an "indigenous," usually female creature with backward pointing feet-both suggests a metaphor for the contradictory coherence of Hispanic Caribbean history and society and becomes a method for contestatory movements. Beginning with a brief historicization of the myth's development in Santo Domingo, the author goes on to consider how the most recent decade of anti-Haitianism, negrophobia, misogyny, and homophobia in the Dominican Republic have inspired ciguapeo as an authoctonous method deployed by queer, black-identified, anti-racist, feminist movements
Art · Ethnology · Indigenous · Literature · Metaphor · Mythology · Queer · Sociology · Theology · Caribbean history, culture, and politics · Cuban History and Society · Gender Studies · History · Latin American and Latino Studies · Philosophy
| Unique citing works | 8 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,67 |
| Citation span | 2014 - 2026 (13) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 8 |