SOURCE: "'A Silence Between Us Like a Language': the Untranslatability of Experience in Sandra Cisneros's Woman Hollering Creek," in MELUS, Vol. 21, No. 2, Summer, 1996, pp. 3-20.
In the following essay, Mullen investigates the Mexican-American words, mythology, encoded messages, and cultural secrets in Cisneros's narrative.
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