Atzlán is a significant symbol in art, folklore, music, poetry, dance, sculpture, theater. It represents cultural identity, values, activism, history and the fight for equality. In Chicana Poetics, Alfred Arteaga writes: “Atzlán aims at the homeland, at the nation as a people, as a state. It offers an intertwined story and a myth if any. It provides the defining principle in the present and predicts an idealized state in the future. As such it functions as a national myth." Atzlán is often used as a literary device to refer to territory unjustly taken from Mexico by the United States. Latinos function as a diasporic population with respect to Atzlán. Their homeland has been appropriated by the “gringos” and, by extension, so has their nation