Woman hollering creek and other stories
This volume is a collection of short stories originally published in 1991 that reflect the author's experience of being surrounded by American influences while still being familiarly bound to her Mexican heritage as she grew-up north of the Mexico-US border. The short vignettes focus on the soc...
| Main Author: | Cisneros, Sandra, |
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Vintage Books,
1992.
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| Physical Description: |
xii, 165 pages ; 21 cm. |
| Edition: | First Vintage contemporaries edition. |
| Series: |
Vintage contemporaries.
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| Summary: |
This volume is a collection of short stories originally published in 1991 that reflect the author's experience of being surrounded by American influences while still being familiarly bound to her Mexican heritage as she grew-up north of the Mexico-US border. The short vignettes focus on the social role of women and their relationships with the men and other women in their lives. The majority of the characters are stereotypes: men embody machismo while women are naive and generally weak. The author focuses on three feminine clichés: the passive virgin, sinful seductress, and traitorous mother. Not properly belonging to either Mexico or America, the Chicana protagonists earnestly search for their identity, only to discover abuse and shattered dreams. Apart from focusing on these issues of struggling females, this work simultaneously develops the readers' sensitivity towards the lives of immigrants. |
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| Item Description: |
"Originally published in hardcover by Random House, Inc., New York, in 1991"--Title page verso. This volume is a collection of short stories originally published in 1991 that reflect the author's experience of being surrounded by American influences while still being familiarly bound to her Mexican heritage as she grew-up north of the Mexico-US border. The short vignettes focus on the social role of women and their relationships with the men and other women in their lives. The majority of the characters are stereotypes: men embody machismo while women are naive and generally weak. The author focuses on three feminine clichés: the passive virgin, sinful seductress, and traitorous mother. Not properly belonging to either Mexico or America, the Chicana protagonists earnestly search for their identity, only to discover abuse and shattered dreams. Apart from focusing on these issues of struggling females, this work simultaneously develops the readers' sensitivity towards the lives of immigrants. I. My Lucy friend who smells like corn. My Lucy friend who smells like corn ; Eleven ; Salvador late or early ; Mexican movies ; Barbie-Q ; Mericans ; Tepeyac -- II. One holy night. One holy night ; My Tocaya -- III. There was a man, there was a woman. Woman Hollering Creek ; The Marlboro man ; La fabulosa : a Texas operetta ; Remember the Alamo ; Never marry a Mexican ; Bread ; Eyes of Zapata ; Anguiano religious articles rosaries statues ; Little miracles, kept promises ; Los boxers ; There was a man, there was a woman ; Tin tan tan ; Bien pretty. Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, 1993. |
| Physical Description: |
xii, 165 pages ; 21 cm. |
| Awards: |
Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, 1993. |
| ISBN: |
0679738568 9780679738565 9780780743984 0780743989 0613062043 9780613062046 0394576543 9780394576541 |