La Loca is a literary mythotype of the mad heroine found in Chicana literature related to La Llorona. Authors using the figure include Ana Castillo, Sandra Cisneros and Monica Palacios, as well as in the poem "La Loca de la Raza Cósmica" by the pseudonymous La Chrisx.
La Loca in Ana Castillo's So Far from God is an outsider from the community, she dies at age three, but is miraculously resurrected revered like a saint, and for her cooking recipes.
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