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Sandra Cisneros with Feroza Jussawalla and Reed Way Dasenbrock (interview date 1992)

SOURCE: Cisneros, Sandra with Feroza Jussawalla and Reed Way Dasenbrock. “Sandra Cisneros.” In Interviews with Writers of the Post-Colonial World, edited by Feroza Jussawalla and Reed Way Dasenbrock, pp. 286-306. Jackson, Mississippi: University Press of Mississippi, 1992.

[In the following interview, Cisneros discusses her cultural identity, her personal and family history, her literary influences, and feminism.]

Chicano literature, like many other new literatures in English, had a defining moment and generation in which several major talents suddenly emerged. The moment was the early 1970s, when in quick succession Tomás Rivera's y no se lo tragó la tierra, Rudolfo Anaya's Bless Me, Ultima, and Rolando Hinojosa's Estampas del valle were published. Rivera's career was tragically cut short by his death in 1984, but Anaya and...

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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