Woman Hollering Creek | A Silence Between Us Like a Language: The Untranslatabilty of Experience in Sandra Cisneros's Woman Hollering Creek
In the following essay, she discusses the implications of language in Woman Hollering Creek in an effort to highlight the unique culture Cisneros writes about.
In jests, dreams, magic, poetry, and poetic prose, Sandra Cisneros finds abundant examples of the ''everyday verbal mythology'' of Mexican-American culture. Language and literacy as sites of cultural and class conflict, or what Paulo Freire and Donaldo Macedo describe as the "antagonistic" yet potentially "positive" relationship of minority to dominant linguistic and cultural codes, are critical matters in Woman Hollering Creek. The text includes frequent references to the specificity and difference coded into any and all languages; to the violence of inadequacy of translation and...
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