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Bauza, Yadmilla. "'Yo lo que sé de Catalina Loango . . .': Orality and Gender in the Caribbean," University at Buffalo, The State University of New York, June 1997.
The voice that repeats the captive world of women in the legend of Catalina Loango originated a long time ago in the Yoruba culture as another legend which narrates the usurpation by men of the power originally revealed to women which in the maroon world of Palenque becomes a representation of the colonial subject. My thesis focuses on how the voices, the people of Palenque put themselves in a back and forth “reading” between the “sacred and profane” activities of their lives and the legend of Catalina Loango. This back and forth reading is a kind of mythopoetic interpretive tool, by which I place my work in a dynamic context in which orality, in stories told and retold reveals the hidden ruses which ideology embodies in native knowledge and tradition.
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