Cisneros on her significance:
When I look at the Virgin of Guadalupe now, she is not the Lupe of my childhood, no longer the one in my grandparent's house in Tepeyac, nor is she the one of the Roman Catholic Church...Like every woman who matters to me, I have had to search for her in the rubble of history. And I have found her. She is Guadalupe the sex goddess, one that makes me feel good about my sexual power, my sexual energy, who reminds me I must...speak the most basic, honest truth...write from my panocha.
This is the vivid imagery, the hidden history I need in order to shape a reconstruction of identity, one woven woven with both Catholic and more ancient threads. The is the Goddess that saves and transforms sexual violence and abuse, celebrates the sacred, sexual body.
A formidable read on so many levels, Goddess of the Americas has helped me think about what in means to be a Latina, in a personal and epic sense.
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