Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories, Sandra Cisneros - Jacqueline Doyle (essay date 1996)
Jacqueline Doyle (essay date 1996)
SOURCE: Doyle, Jacqueline. “Haunting the Borderlands: La Llorona in Sandra Cisneros's ‘Woman Hollering Creek’.” Frontiers 16, no. 1 (1996): 53-70.
[In the following essay, Doyle examines Cisneros's utilization of the La Llorona myth in her story “Woman Hollering Creek” and argues that the story “charts psychological, linguistic, and spiritual border crossings.”]
Aiiii aiiii aiiiii
She is crying for her dead child
the lover gone, the lover not yet come:
Her grito splinters the night
—Gloria Anzaldúa, “My Black Angelos,” Borderlands/La Frontera1
“If I were asked what it is I write about,” Sandra Cisneros commented in a lecture in 1986, “I would have to say I write about those ghosts inside that haunt...
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