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Adriana Estill (essay date fall 2002)

SOURCE: Estill, Adriana. “Building the Chicana Body in Sandra Cisneros' My Wicked Wicked Ways.” Rocky Mountain Review of Language and Literature 56, no. 2 (fall 2002): 25-43.

[In the following essay, Estill examines the collection My Wicked Wicked Ways alongside Cisneros's novel The House on Mango Street, tracing the narrators' barrio childhoods, their struggles to gain independence of their families, their travels of personal discovery, and their transformations through celebrating control of their bodies and identifying with women of the third world.]

Sandra Cisneros' poetry has been long overshadowed by her novel, House on Mango Street (1991), which has received a great deal of critical attention, and by her collection of short stories, Women Hollering Creek (1991), which won her a MacArthur “genius” award. The general oversight of Cisneros' poetic...

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1. Introduction
2. Principal Works
3. Criticism
   1. Sandra Cisneros with Feroza Jussawalla and Reed Way Dasenbrock (interview date 1992)
   2. Susan Smith Nash (essay date winter 1995)
   3. Carol Muske (essay date fall 1995)
   4. Viviana Rangil (essay date September 2000)
   5. Adriana Estill (essay date fall 2002)
4. Further Reading
5. Copyright

1. Sandra Cisneros
2. How to Analyze a Poem
3. Poetry