...Long Le-Khac Abstract This essay defines the problem of bildungsroman hermeneutics for literary criticism and social policy in the post–civil rights era. Examining critical responses to Sandra Cisneros’s The House on Mango Street , it argues that the traditional bildungsroman exerts a powerful hold...

... in Fabiola Cabeza de Baca’s writings, alternative con- ceptions of house and home in Sandra Cisneros’s and Carmen Lomas Garza’s children’s literature, glamour and rasquache in Patssi Valdez’s art and film set Book Reviews  407 design, and Diana...

... that are by or about Latinos/as. In a formalist reading of narratives by Oscar Zeta Acosta, Gloria Anzaldúa, Piri Thomas, Giannina Braschi, Gilbert Hernandez, Sandra Cisneros, and Junot Díaz, González foregrounds four kinds of narrative features in his case study of Latino/a literature to discuss how those features...

... the portability of their work as a survival skill. Bona examines the connections between handwork, resourcefulness, and mobility in works by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Sandra Cisneros, Adria Bernardi, and Alice Walker. She argues that cloth working generates forms of movement, and that “literary sewing women effected...

...” texts like Edith Wharton’s The Decoration of Houses (1897) and the magazine Martha Stewart Living , to “the challenges of immigrant homemaking” (120) in novels like Jamaica Kincaid’s Lucy (1990) and Sandra Cisneros’s The House on Mango Street (1984), to “reflections on domesticity in situations...

... imaginary and male self- determination. She challenges a homogenous national image and explores Brief Mention 667 self-making as a concept of both limitation and possibility. Readings of William Faulkner, Ralph Ellison, Sandra...

... and artists of color. The appearance of diversity became part of a school’s sales pitch to prospective white students. The university’s adoption of liberal multiculturalism, which surfaces in the English department as high cultural pluralism, took a while to set in. Chicana feminist writer Sandra Cisneros...

... Minot, Sandra Cisneros, and Cormac McCarthy that limn the minimalist tradition. Delineat- ing a shared concern for techniques such as brevity, allusion, and omission, Clark reconsiders the “new” realism of the 1980s within a proposed literary genealogy that dates from the late nineteenth century...

... in ‘‘ancient traditions’’ of Western literature (2–3), yet he also comments on statements by Erdrich and Sandra Cisneros that they consider the short-story cycle an analogue of non-Western, oral traditions (21, 106). Equally impor...

... close examinations of the novels of Denise Chávez, Sandra Cisneros, Marta Moreno Vega, Angie Cruz, and Marie Arana, Heredia analyzes the ways in which Latina writers provide alternative stories of official memory and popular history. Contributing to the field of transnational...

... essays on topics such as folklore, ethnicity, sexu- ality, and architecture. A number of Chicano writers are explored, includ- ing Pat Mora, Amelia Valdez, Sandra Cisneros, Arturo Islas, and filmmaker Gregory Nava. The volume also includes an interview with Chicana writer Ana Castillo...

... in discourses of globalization,” he writes (174). The point is important, and yet what comes to pass is that the most interesting triangulation in the book engages with transnational migration. Vázquez’s reading of Sandra Cisneros’s Caramelo (2002) is sensitive to the book’s portrayal of the United...

.... They fear, above all, ‘‘the polie’’ and ‘‘la Migra As occupants of the South in the North, they live in what Sandra Cisneros, in her cycle of short stories, calls the ‘‘bor- Tseng 2001.5.22 13:00...

... Por- tales. Philadelphia: Temple Univ. Press. 2000. xiv, 209 pp. Cloth, $59.50; paper, $19.95. This volume looks at how writers such as Americo Paredes, Sandra Cisneros, and Ana Castillo have addressed the historical disenfranchisement of Lati- nos in the United States and the realities of Latino...

... day, a formation with more cultural capital and far greater social confidence. Sandra Cisneros’s story “Never Marry a Mexican” (1991) might have served Hamilton better in exploring this new world and its “alternative ways of imagin- ing racial, ethnic, and cultural interactions within...

... day, a formation with more cultural capital and far greater social confidence. Sandra Cisneros’s story “Never Marry a Mexican” (1991) might have served Hamilton better in exploring this new world and its “alternative ways of imagin- ing racial, ethnic, and cultural interactions within...

... day, a formation with more cultural capital and far greater social confidence. Sandra Cisneros’s story “Never Marry a Mexican” (1991) might have served Hamilton better in exploring this new world and its “alternative ways of imagin- ing racial, ethnic, and cultural interactions within...

... social confidence. Sandra Cisneros’s story “Never Marry a Mexican” (1991) might have served Hamilton better in exploring this new world and its “alternative ways of imagin- ing racial, ethnic, and cultural interactions within these United States.” (This new formation and its cultural capital might...

...” macrosociological dif- ference that might have a lot to do with this shift, namely the explosive growth of a Mexican American middle class and even an upper class in the present day, a formation with more cultural capital and far greater social confidence. Sandra Cisneros’s story “Never Marry a Mexican...

...” macrosociological dif- ference that might have a lot to do with this shift, namely the explosive growth of a Mexican American middle class and even an upper class in the present day, a formation with more cultural capital and far greater social confidence. Sandra Cisneros’s story “Never Marry a Mexican...