Question

autobiography of a statue​

Answer 1

Explanation:

This essay focuses on Fray Angélico Chávez's 1954 narrative La Conquistadora: The Autobiography of an Ancient Statue as a critical model for re-reading Mexican American women's literature and Chicana feminist art. The statue of La Conquistadora, which arrived in Santa Fe in 1625, is venerated as the oldest Marian representation in the United States. The autobiography is worth serious study because of its transvestite narrative voice: the female statue tells "her-story" as written by the male author. In La Conquistadora Chávez crosses gender and genre in ways that prompt a critical assessment of the autobiography's significance through a deconstructive reading that draws on Southwest studies, feminism, and queer theory. This analysis offers a fresh perspective for determining how gender works in the life writings of early-twentieth-century Mexican American writers and the feminist works of contemporary Chicana artists.