Border crossings and beyond
Subtitle: the life and works of Sandra Cisneros
By: Carmen Haydée Rivera.
Series: Women writers of color series; Women writers of color
Publisher: Praeger
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Santa Barbara, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 127
ISBN-13: 9780313345180; 9780313345197
Subjects: Cisneros, Sandra
Description: Best known as the author of The House on Mango Street, Sandra Cisneros is recognized as one the most important contemporary U.S. writers. In this book, the author examines the ways in which issues of cultural and racial identity are reflected in Cisneros' writing and social activism. She looks at Cisneros' creative process when writing novels and analyzes her poetry collections, highlighting the distinctions that she makes between the two forms of writing. The author concludes with a discussion of Cisneros' role as an activist involved in community affairs, particularly those related to the development of Latino/a lives. This book is a revealing and multi-faceted portrait of Cisneros as writer, woman, and Mexican American.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: An artist in the making; title: Telling to live: an approach to Sandra Cisneros' fictional world; title: "Entering into the serpent": a provocative Chicana poetics; title: Caramelo: weaving family and national history into storytelling; title: A rebellious soul in San Antonio: Sandra Cisneros' social activism.