Woman hollering creek and other stories
by Sandra Cisneros
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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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Woman Hollering Creek
July 19, 2004, Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Paperback
- New Ed edition
0747560889 9780747560883
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Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories
October 1999, Tandem Library
in English
0613062043 9780613062046
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El Arroyo De LA Llorona: Y Otros Cuentos
October 1999, Tandem Library
School & Library Binding
in Spanish
061304519X 9780613045193
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Woman hollering creek and other stories
1992, Vintage Books
in English
- 1st Vintage contemporaries ed.
0679738568 9780679738565
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Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories
Mar 01, 1992, San Val, Perfection Learning
library binding
0780743989 9780780743984
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Woman hollering creek: and other stories
1991, Bloomsbury, Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
in English
0747513929 9780747513926
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Woman hollering creek, and other stories
1991, Random House
in English
- 1st ed.
0394576543 9780394576541
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"Originally published in hardcover by Random House, Inc., New York, in 1991"--T.p. verso.
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The author of The House on Mango Street gives voice to characters on both sides of the Mexican border, from a young girl harboring special secrets to a witch woman circling above her village.
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