Unveiling Secrets: Claudia Castro Luna Reveals the Hidden Story Behind The Flowers Along the Way
CCL: El Salvador is hyper-patriarchal. It’s a Catholic society, which is by essence patriarchal. The society is also very sexist, machista. But it’s really the women who sustain daily life, and in my story, they come to the surface very naturally. By design, my grandmother is a throughline in this book because she was such a powerful personality. The angle of matriarchy versus patriarchy isn’t as deeply explored as other themes in the book, such as the search for home and war trauma, but the material very organically takes on the question of gender roles. Women take center stage in the book — it presents an on-the-ground reality of a child whose world was dominated by women.
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