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Woman Hollering Creek by Sandra Cisneros

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Name: Sandra Cisneros
Birth Date: December 20, 1954
Place of Birth: Chicago, Illinois, United States
Nationality: American
Ethnicity: Hispanic American
Gender: Female
Occupations: author, poet

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Biography of Sandra Cisneros
6741 words, approx. 22.5 pages
Sandra Cisneros burst onto the publishing scene with her 1983 work, The House on Mango Street, the warm and human story of a young Chicana who comes of age in a Chicago barrio, fighting obstacles of racism, sexism, and cla ssism. With that single book, C...
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Biography of Sandra Cisneros
5281 words, approx. 17.6 pages
With her fiction and poetry Sandra Cisneros creates poignant stories and brings an original twist to universal themes, notably love. Yet, as Jim Sagel in Publishers Weekly pointed out, "Cisneros knows her characters live in an America very different from...
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Biography of Sandra Cisneros
4821 words, approx. 16.1 pages
Drawing heavily upon her childhood experiences and ethnic heritage Sandra Cisneros (born 1954) creates characters who are distinctly Hispanic and often isolated from mainstream American culture by emphasizing dialogue and sensory imagery over traditional...
 


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Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories Summary
5,490 words, approx. 18 pages
Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories by Sandra Cisneros Sandra Cisneros was born in Chicago in 1954 to a Mexican father and a Mexican American mother, the only daughter among seven children. Her upbringing was marked by the constraining influence of...
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Woman Hollering Creek Information
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Woman Hollering Creek is a creek located in Central Texas. At one point, it crosses Interstate 10, in between Seguin, Texas and San Antonio, Texas. The creek's name is probabaly a loose translation of from the Spanish La Llorona, or "The weeping woman"....


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The Nation
Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories. (book reviews)
05/06/1991: 1,571 words, approx. 5 pages
Defiant magic feminism challenges all our conventional notions of time, place, matter and identity in Rosario Ferre's spectacular new book, The Youngest Doll, first published in Spanish in 1976 as Papeles de Pandora and now deftly translated into English primarily by the author...
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International Fiction Review
Sandra Cisneros's modern Malinche: a reconsideration of feminine archetypes in Woman Hollering Creek.(Critical Essay)
01/01/2002: 6,272 words, approx. 21 pages
Sandra Cisneros's collection of stories Woman Hollering Creek (1991) depicts the situation of the Mexican-American woman: typically caught between two cultures, she resides in a cultural borderland. (1) The topics of the stories range from the confusions of a bicultural and bilingual childhood...
 


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