Woman Hollering Creek | Multicultural Aspects of "Woman Hollering Creek"
In the following essay, Jennifer Hicks and Barbara Smith discuss multicultural aspects of "Woman Hollering Creek."
In her short story "Woman Hollering Creek," Sandra Cisneros demonstrates in her writing the same linguistic and cultural transformations she describes in her narrative. Writing about Mexicans and Mexican-Americans like Cleofilas and her husband, Juan Pedro, who inhabit the border between the United States and Mexico, Cisneros explores the terrible losses and limitations that exist for people who live in the edges of divergent languages and cultures. These borderlands, as Gloria Anzaldua describes them in her book, Borderlands/ La Frontera: The New Mestiza, "are physically present...
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