Cisneros, Sandra - Woman Hollering Creek And Other Stories
Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories
SUSAN E. GRIFFIN (ESSAY DATE 1997)
SOURCE: Griffin, Susan E. “Resistance and Reinvention in Sandra Cisneros’ Woman Hollering Creek.” In Ethnicity and the American Short Story, edited by Julie Brown, pp. 85-96. New York: Garland Publishing, Inc., 1997.
In the following essay, Griffin chronicles the steps that the female protagonists in Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories must take in order to gain control over their lives and destinies.
In her prefatory poem to My Wicked, Wicked Ways, Sandra Cisneros asks, “What does a woman [like me] inherit that tells her how to go?” (x). This question about the cultural inheritance of Mexican American women and how it shapes their perceptions of the choices available to them is central to Cisneros’ work. Throughout her poetry...
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