Essay #2: Literary Analysis + Research!: Search Terms

• Macho

• Machista

• Origins of macho

• Impact of macho

• Macho men

• Latino men and dominance

• Macho man in popular culture or media

  
  

• Crying woman and Mexico
• Llorona and impact
• Gritona
• Wailing Woman and Latin America
• Female revenge and llorona
• Suffering, abandoned and Llorona

Searching Library Databases

REMEMBER:

• • Sometimes less is more you will often have more success when you search if you look for just a few key concepts or key ideas
  • AVOID a complete sentence as your key concepts
  • Use quotes “” to keep all the words in a phrase together (“human rights”)

Q. What keywords & concepts phrases would you “glue” together to build your search statement?

Examples:

• Malitzin
• Malinche and traitor
• Malinche and sexuality
• Malinche and survivor
• Malinalli
• Dona Maria and Mexico

• La inmaculada
• Virgin and female purity
• Virgin of Guadalupe and suffering
• Virgin and maternal archetype
• Virgin and Mexico

• Pedro Infante
• Rudolph Valentino
• Men in novelas?
• Latino Lover
• Hollywood + Latino
• Don Juan