41. Literature & Fiction / Authors, A-Z / ( C ) / Cisneros, Sandra Browse Bestsellers 1 16 1. The House on Mango Street (Vintage Contemporaries)by sandra cisneros. 11. My Wicked Wicked Ways by cisneros, sandra cisneros. http://hallauthors.com/C/23.shtml

Home Authors, A-Z ( C ) Cisneros, Sandra The House on Mango Street (Vintage Contemporaries) by Sandra Cisneros Vintage Books Paperback - 110 pages Reissue edition (April 1991) Book Description A collection of stories, whose characters give voice to the vibrant and varied life on both sides of the Mexican border. The women in these stories offer tales of pure discovery, filled with moments of infinite and intimate wisdom. Read more The House on Mango Street [UNABRIDGED] by Sandra Cisneros(Reader) Random House (Audio) Audio Cassette unabridged edition (September 1998) From Booklist , May 1, 1994 is Spanish for joy, and joy is the prevailing emotion in these poems. Being a woman is better than being a man, and there's more to ponder in the relation between life and the task of living itthese themes run through Cisneros' fiery new poems. Cisneros basks in her womanhood, taking... Read more Hairs Pelitos by Sandra Cisneros, Terry Ybanez (Illustrator) Dragonfly Paperback - 32 pages (November 1997) See picture LA Casa En Mango Street/ the House on Mango Street (Vintage Contemporaries) by Sandra Cisneros, Elena Poniatowska (Translator)

42. Egoiste.edb.utexas.edu/cyberraza/chiclitauthors.html Similar pages Fiction sandra cisnerosBack to List sandra cisneros (b. 1954) LINKS Voices From the Gaps WomenWriters of Color http//voices.cla.umn.edu/authors/sandracisneros.html http://egoiste.edb.utexas.edu/cyberraza/chiclitauthors.html

Bless me, Ultima; a novel. / Anaya, Rudolfo A. / (Berkeley, Calif. / 1972 The Anaya reader. / Anaya, Rudolfo A. / New York / 1995 Zia summer. / Anaya, Rudolfo A. / New York / 1995 The farolitos of Christmas : a New Mexico Christmas story. / Anaya, Rudolfo A. / 1st pbk. ed. / Santa Fe, N. M. / 1987 The legend of La Llorona : a short novel. / Anaya, Rudolfo A. / Berkeley, Ca., USA / 1984 Cuentos : tales from the Hispanic Southwest : based on stories originally collected by Juan B. Rael. / Griego y Maestas, Jose, 1949- / 1st ed. / Santa Fe, N.M. / 1980 Aztlan : essays on the Chicano homeland. / Albuquerque, N.M. / 1989 Flow of the river = Corre el rio. / Albuquerque, N.M. / 1988 Tortuga. / Anaya, Rudolfo A. / Berkeley, CA / 1979 Los cumpleanos de dona Agueda. / Sagel, Jim. / Austin, Tex. / 1984 Rudolfo Anaya readings of excerpts from Bless me, Ultima and la Tortuga. / Columbia, Mo. / 1982 Voces : an anthology of Nuevo Mexicano writers. / Albuquerque, N.M. / 1987 Interview of Rudolfo Anaya. / Anaya, Rudolfo A. / (United States) / 1982 The adventures of Juan Chicaspatas. / Anaya, Rudolfo A. / Houston / 1985

43. Poetry: Sandra Cisneros BIOGRAPHY sandra cisneros (b. 1954), the daughter of a Mexican father and a MexicanAmerican mother, grew up in the poor neighborhoods of Chicago, where she http://www.bedfordstmartins.com/litlinks/poetry/cisneros.htm

MM_preloadImages('../images/m_research_o.gif'); MM_preloadImages('../images/m_related_o.gif'); MM_preloadImages('../images/m_literary_o.gif'); MM_preloadImages('../images/m_critical_o.gif'); MM_preloadImages('../images/m_essays_o.gif'); MM_preloadImages('../images/m_poetry_o.gif'); MM_preloadImages('../images/m_drama_o.gif'); MM_preloadImages('../images/m_fiction_o.gif'); Sandra Cisneros (b. 1954) LINKS Voices From the Gaps: Women Writers of Color http://voices.cla.umn.edu/authors/SandraCisneros.html From Voices From the Gaps, an instructional site from the University of Minnesota focusing on the lives and works of women writers of color, the page on Cisneros includes a brief biography, a useful bibliography, and a list of links to other related sites. Interview with Sandra Cisneros gopher://latino.sscnet.ucla.edu:70/11/Researcher/Arts%20%26%20Humanities/Literature/ Interviews/Interview%20with%20Sandra%20Cisneros From the Chicana Studies Home Page at UCLA, this interview excerpted from Interviews with Writers of the Post-Colonial World (Oxford University Press of Mississippi, 1992) gives an in-depth introduction to the cultural context of Cisneros's writing.

44. Sandra Cisneros Translate this page Voces Latinoamericanas. cisneros, sandra. Nació en Chicago, Illinois. Hoy sandracisneros escribe sus libros en Inglés y solamente habla Español en su casa. http://www.mesalibrary.org/espanol/cafecito/cisneros.asp

Voces Latinoamericanas Cisneros, Sandra Nació en Chicago, Illinois. Su madre era chicana y su padre de México. Sandra Cisneros empezó a tener un gusto especial por los libros cuando era niña, ya que su mamá la llevaba a la biblioteca desde muy pequeña. Tiene seis hermanos y es la única hija. Su niñez la vivió en barrios muy pobres y por situaciones familiares y económicas, su familia se mudaba muy seguido; razón por la cual era muy tímida de pequeña. Posteriormente se instaló en un barrio puertorriqueño, y este barrio tuvo mucha influencia sobre sus obras literarias. Hoy Sandra Cisneros escribe sus libros en Inglés y solamente habla Español en su casa. El arroyo de la llorona y otros cuentos . SL FIC CISNEROS, S (Woman Hollering Creek and the Other Stories) Caramelo, o puro cuento SL FIC CISNEROS, S (Caramelo) La casa en Mango Street SL FIC CISNEROS, S (The House on Mango Street) Pelitos.

45. Poppleton - Sandra Cisneros' The House On Mango Street (I-TESL-J) The Internet TESL Journal sandra cisneros' The House on Mango Street ExperiencingPoetical Prose. (Essay and Lesson Plan) References. cisneros, sandra. http://iteslj.org/Lessons/Poppleton-MangoStreet.html

The Internet TESL Journal Sandra Cisneros' The House on Mango Street: Experiencing Poetical Prose (Essay and Lesson Plan) Carole A. Poppleton cpopplet [at] mica.edu Maryland Institute, College of Art (Baltimore, MD, USA) What does it mean to have "lazy hair" or hair that "smells like bread?" How can a name be "muddy" or sound as if it were made out of "tin?" What do front porch steps "all lopsided and jutting like crooked teeth" look like? How can a pair of small black dogs "leap and somersault like an apostrophe and comma?" As English and ESL teachers we want to assist our international students with acquiring the skills to communicate effectively in their target language; however, we also realise that there is so much more to language mastery than the memorisation of vocabulary and sentence patterns or knowledge of grammar and punctuation rules. Most of us also want our students to be familiar with the beauty and power of English, with the possibilities of words and phrases to evoke emotions and create sensory impressions. By incorporating literature into the ESL classroom - poetry, drama, fiction- we can assist our L2 learners with the nuances and creativeness of their new language. In a recent college-level literature course I used Sandra Cisneros' book The House on Mango Street (Vintage Books, 1989). This class was comprised of twelve students (average TOEFL 550) representing five countries. Our special focus for this course was the term the "American Dream." Through a variety of readings and perspectives, we tried to come to a deeper understanding of this mercurial concept. Even though Cisneros' novel addresses pertinent issues of gender, race, ethnicity, and social class (general themes we were exploring in the course), it proved to be far more of a linguistic tool, helping my class to understand language on a variety of sensory levels. In this text we moved beyond what was being said (the story) to study carefully and to feel how it was being said (the style).

46. Sandra Cisneros - La Bibliografía cisneros, sandra. The House on Mango Street. New York Vintage Inc., 1989.cisneros, sandra. Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories. New http://www.castilleja.org/public/academics/studentprojects/mundo/cisneross/cisne

47. Sandra Cisneros - Lista De Obras El imagen de Woman Hollering Creek fue tomado de cisneros, sandra. Elimagen de La Casa En Mango Street fue tomado de cisneros, sandra. http://www.castilleja.org/public/academics/studentprojects/mundo/cisneross/cisne

48. Days And Nights Of Love And War Cisneros, Sandra,Brister, Judith,Galeano, Eduard Days and Nights of Love and War cisneros, sandra,Brister, Judith,Galeano,Eduardo H. Nonfiction. Days and Nights of Love and War http://www.the-books-ster.com/Cisneros-Sandra-Brister-Judith-Galeano-Eduardo-H/D

Days and Nights of Love and War Cisneros, Sandra,Brister, Judith,Galeano, Eduardo H. Nonfiction Title: Days and Nights of Love and War Subject: Nonfiction Author: Cisneros Sandra Brister Judith Galeano Eduardo H. Drury, Jack Canoeing (Wilderne... Hill, Bob Crack of the Bat : T... Mathias, Bob,Mendes, Bob A Twe... Glenn Berggoetz,Alan Moyer 101... ... Partner

49. Hairs (in MARION) Hairs. Title Hairs = Pelitos / by sandra cisneros ; illustrated by TerryYbáñez ; translated from the English by Liliana Valenzuela. http://wpalmb.pbclibrary.org:8002/MARION/AAW-8574

Hairs Title: Hairs = Pelitos / by Sandra Cisneros ; illustrated by Terry Ybáñez ; [translated from the English by Liliana Valenzuela] Author: Cisneros, Sandra. Ybáñez, Terry, ill. Published: New York : A.A. Knopf : Distributed by Random House, c1994. Subject: Bilingual books for children English-Spanish. Bilingual books for children Spanish-English. Other titles: Pelitos. Material: [24] p. : col. ill. ; 22 x 28 cm. Note: English and Spanish. "An Apple Soup book." A girl describes how each person in the family has hair that looks and acts different, Papa's like a broom, Kiki's like fur, and Mama's with the sweet smell of bread before it's baked ISBN: 0679961712 (lib. bdg.) 0679861718 (trade) System ID no: AAW-8574 Holdings: MAIN - JUVENILE CALL NUMBER: [E] Cisneros JUV BOOK Checked Out BELLE GLADE BRANCH - JUVENILE CALL NUMBER: [E] Cisneros JUV BOOK Check Shelf JUPITER BRANCH - JUVENILE CALL NUMBER: [E] Cisneros JUV BOOK Check Shelf OKEECHOBEE BLVD. BR.- JUVENILE CALL NUMBER: [E] Cisneros JUV BOOK Check Shelf NORTH COUNTY REGIONAL JUVENILE CALL NUMBER: [E] Cisneros JUV BOOK Check Shelf WEST ATLANTIC AVE. - JUVENILE

50. Topics Readings Journal Entry 1 Issues Relating Geography And Woman Hollering Creek. cisneros, sandra. Mericans. pp. EDIT House on Mango Street Papa Who Wakes Up Tired in the Dark cisneros, sandra. pp. 567. family. http://web.mit.edu/crcp/explorations/iReadings.html

Readings Exploring 'I': The South Asian American Identity Session 1 I Session 2 I Session 3 I Session 4 I Session 5 I Session 6 I Session 7 I Session 8 Topics Readings Journal Entry 1 Issues Relating Geography and Ethnic Identity to Being Indo-American Session 1 Contours of the Heart. Divided Consciousness Amidst a New Orientalism: South Asian American Identity Formation on Campus. Doshi, Sucheta J. pp. 203. south asian vs asian. East-West. Rushdie, Salman. pp. 150-1. india-sahib relationship. pp. 125. home. Woman Hollering Creek. Cisneros, Sandra. Mericans. pp. 19-20. being American. Modernity at Large. Appadurai, A. pp. 29. schizophrenia. Contours of the Heart. Divided Consciousness Amidst a New Orientalism: South Asian American Identity Formation on Campus. Doshi, Sucheta J. pp. 209. consciousness divided. Contours of the Heart. Divided Consciousness Amidst a New Orientalism: South Asian American Identity Formation on Campus. Doshi, Sucheta J. pp. 210-1.

51. Identity Theory | The Narrative Thread - Sandra Cisneros sandra cisneros. Author of Caramelo talks with Robert Birnbaum. Writer,poet, performance artist sandra cisneros was born in Chicago. http://www.identitytheory.com/people/birnbaum76.html

identitytheory.com alphabet zen fiction, etc. cyber district web, computers dust jacket syndrome books, literary home/body health, family, etc. kaleidoscope wise insight, humor la vie poeme pomes listening booth music the narrative thread interviews power button politics/money scientific method science, technology shoeless sports bar athletics soul kitchen spirituality visual culture art, film, tv, photos A Reader's Progress CrimQuips Tourist Information About IDT ... Submission Guidelines sign up for the identity theory newsletter . (your email will not be redistributed to hucksters.) Search WWW Search identitytheory.com Sandra Cisneros Author of Caramelo talks with Robert Birnbaum Posted: December 4, 2002 All photos by Red Diaz / Duende Publishing Print this interview. Writer, poet, performance artist Sandra Cisneros was born in Chicago. She is the only girl in a family of seven of a Mexican father and Mexican-American mother. She received an MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop and has worked as a teacher to high-school dropouts, a poet-in-the-schools, a college recruiter and an arts administrator. She has received, among other awards and fellowships, the Lannan Literary Award, The American Book Award and a MacArthur Foundation fellowship. Sandra Cisneros has published

52. Denver Post.com Sunday, January 05, 2003 Hispanic wordsmith sandra cisneros quietly steppedinto the world of mainstream literature in 1980 with Bad Boys (Mango http://www.denverpost.com/Stories/0,1413,36%7E28%7E1086134,00.html

document.write(''); document.write(''); document.write(''); document.write(''); document.write(''); document.write(''); ABOUT US/HELP ARCHIVES BOOKS Chapter One ... DPO HOME SEARCH DPO: Enter search term, hit enter key Click here for advanced search fiction Family-rich 'Caramelo' a Cisneros success By Kelly Milner Halls Special to The Denver Post Sunday, January 05, 2003 - Hispanic wordsmith Sandra Cisneros quietly stepped into the world of mainstream literature in 1980 with "Bad Boys" (Mango Publications), a book of poetry. She returned with magnificence to present her critically acclaimed collection of vignettes, "The House on Mango Street" (Arte Publico), in 1984. Her first novel, "Caramelo," is a triumphant addition to Cisneros' body of work. But one glance at the 48-year-old author's biography confirms she is no beginner. Loyola of Chicago awarded Cisneros her bachelor of arts in 1976. She earned her MFA in 1978 as a University of Iowa Writers' Workshop participant (like John Irving, Flannery O'Connor, Robert Bly, Wallace Stegner and other prestigious authors before her). Twice, she was named a National Endowment for the Arts fellow, in 1982 and '88. The list of accolades goes on and on. Of course, sterling credentials don't guarantee a distinctive artisan. But if there was ever any doubt, one glance at "Caramelo" will quiet the rumbling.

53. Sandra Cisneros Bebe Moore, Crossing Borders, New York Times Book Review, May 26, 1991, p. 6.cisneros, sandra, The House on Mango Street, Vintage Contemporaries, 1991, pp. http://www.princeton.edu/~howarth/557/house_bio.html

Major Authors for Children and Young Adults 1992; First Edition LENGTH: 5552 words NAME: Sandra Cisneros PERSONAL: Born December 20, 1954, in Chicago, IL; daughter of Alfredo Cisneros Del Moral and Elvira Cordero Anguiano. ADDRESSES: HomeSan Antonio, Texas. AgentSusan Bergholz, 340 West 72nd ST., New York, 10023. EDUCATION: Loyola University of Chicago, B.A., 1976; University of Iowa, M.F.A., 1978. CAREER: Writer. Has taught at universities, including University of California at Berkeley and University of Michigan. Worked previously as a high school teacher, counselor, college recruiter, and arts administrator. POLITICS: "Chicana feminist. " RELIGION: "None of the above. " AWARDS: National Endowment for the Arts fellow, 1982 and 1987; Before Columbus Foundation Award, 1985, for The House on Mango Street; Dobie-Paisano fellow, 1986; PEN/West Fiction Award, and Lannan Foundation Award, both 1991, for Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories. WRITINGS: Bad Boys (poems), Mango Publications, 1980. The House on Mango Street (stories), Arte Publico, 1983. My Wicked Wicked Ways (poems), Third Woman Press, 1987. Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories, Random House, 1991. Work represented in anthologies, including Emergency Tacos: Seven Poets con Picante, Abrazo Press, 1989, and We Are the Stories We Tell: The Best Short Stories by North American Women since 1945, Pantheon, 1990; contributor to periodicals, including Imagine, Revista Chicano-Riqeuna, Ms., Glamour, Elle and New Chicano/ Chicana Writing.

54. CyberSpace Search! Results 1 through 7 of 7 for sandra cisneros. Research sandra cisneros at QuestiaQuestia online library offers more than 70,000 books and journal articles. http://www.cyberspace.com/cgi-bin/cs_search.cgi?Terms=sandra cisneros

55. TWU Library Similar pages HoustonChronicle.com 'Caramelo' by sandra cisnerosPrinter-friendly format. Nov. 29, 2002, 130PM. Caramelo. By sandra cisneros Knopf.Copyright © 2002 sandra cisneros All right reserved. ISBN 0-679-43554-9, http://twu.edu/www/twu/library/zumwalt.html

Delores Zumwalt February 1, 1995 "A House of My Own": Sandra Cisneros and the Art of Storytelling Sandra Cisneros writes eloquently of the experience of Latina women in contemporary America. "The meaning of literary success," she declares, "is that I could change the way someone thinks about my community, or my gender, or my class" (Milligan 16). Born in Chicago in 1954 of a Mexican father and a Chicana mother, she was the only daughter of seven children. She notes that her six brothers "paired off" according to their ages and birth orders, leaving her "odd-woman-out forever" (Cisneros, "Ghosts" 69). She grew up in a home where conduct and behavior were strictly defined according to culturally prescribed gender- based parameters. Even as a child, she felt constrained by the traditional female role imposed upon her. Cisneros' brothers sought to control and mold her according to this dominating, male-oriented ideology so much so that she later professed that she felt as if she had "seven fathers" instead of one (Sagel 74). Consequently, she confesses in a 1990 interview: "to this day when any man tells me to do something in a certain way, the hair on the back of my neck just stands up" (Aranda 66). Locked in the grip of poverty, Cisneros likens many of her childhood neighborhoods to "France after World War IIempty lots and burned-out buildings" (Sagel 74). The family moved often "like the tides" (Sagel 74)from Chicago to Mexico City and back again to assuage her father's acute homesickness and her paternal

56. HoustonChronicle.com - 'Caramelo' By Sandra Cisneros Healthy lies . . . . . and a large, wonderful novel from sandra cisneros. ByFRITZ LANHAM CARAMELO. By sandra cisneros. Knopf, $24; 439 pp. http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/story.hts/ae/books/reviews/1612584

HoustonChronicle.com Pick a section Home Page Business Classifieds Columnists Comics Community Directory Entertainment Features Health Help Inside Story Marketplace Metropolitan Page 1 News Search Archives Site Map Space Sports Travel Weather Section: Book reviews Current stories in Book reviews: 'Of Paradise and Power' by Robert Kagan 'What About the Kids' by Judith S. Wallerstein Watkins' perspective makes Enron book stand out 'The Commissariat of Enlightenment' by Ken Kalfus ... Printer-friendly format Oct. 11, 2002, 11:08AM Healthy lies . . . . . . and a large, wonderful novel from Sandra Cisneros By FRITZ LANHAM CARAMELO. By Sandra Cisneros. Knopf, $24; 439 pp. LATE in Caramelo a character remarks, with a mixture of awe and exasperation, "My Got! What a telenovela our lives are!" So much love, so much pain, so many twists of fate. Just like in the popular Mexican TV melodramas. "So much misery in the world," another character weeps, elsewhere in the book. ," her companion says, " tanta miseria , but also so much humanity to make up for the cruelty." "Enough," comes the weeping reply, "but not too much."

57. Fiction Books ... Sandra Cisneros ... The Book Beat Fiction Books The Book Beat sandra cisneros. Welcome! sandra cisneros. TheHouse on Mango Street by sandra cisneros, Hardcover Click here to order. http://arts.searchbeat.com/cisneros.htm

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58. Caramelo (in MARION) Call Number (CASS) FICTION C. Title Caramelo sound recording a novel / writtenby sandra cisneros. Author cisneros, sandra. Read by sandra cisneros. http://axp.aacpl.net:8032/MARION/ABW-4879

Caramelo Call Number: (CASS) FICTION C Title: Caramelo : [sound recording] : a novel / written by Sandra Cisneros. Author: Cisneros, Sandra. Published: New York : HarperAudio ; Prince Frederick, Md. : distributed by Recorded Books, [2002] Subject: Mexican American families Fiction Audiobooks (Cassettes). Grandparent and child Fiction Audiobooks (Cassettes). Women Mexico Fiction Audiobooks (Cassettes). Audiobooks (Cassettes). ... Domestic fiction. Audiobooks (Cassettes). Material: 10 sound cassettes (16 hr.) : analog. Note: In container (22 cm.). "Unabridged."Container. Title from container. Read by Sandra Cisneros. A story of three generations of a Mexican-American family. ISBN: Music Pub no: 22167 Recorded Books System ID no: ABW-4879 Holdings: Annapolis Audio-Visuals CALL NUMBER: (CASS) FICTION C Cass AudBk Checked Out Broadneck Audio-Visuals CALL NUMBER: (CASS) FICTION C Cass AudBk Available Brooklyn Park Audio-Visuals CALL NUMBER: (CASS) FICTION C Cass AudBk Available Crofton Audio-Visuals CALL NUMBER: (CASS) FICTION C Cass AudBk Checked Out Eastport Audio-Visuals CALL NUMBER: (CASS) FICTION C Cass AudBk Checked Out Edgewater Audio-Visuals CALL NUMBER: (CASS) FICTION C Cass AudBk Checked Out Linthicum Audio-Visuals CALL NUMBER: (CASS) FICTION C Cass AudBk Checked Out Maryland City Audio-Visuals CALL NUMBER: (CASS) FICTION C Cass AudBk Checked Out Mountain Rd Audio-Visuals CALL NUMBER: (CASS) FICTION C Cass AudBk Available

59. Sandra Cisneros Collection of sandra cisneros essays (by me, Sarajini). Greetings, you havestumbled upon my echest of sandra cisneros stuff. sandra cisneros vs. http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Workshop/4911/wgww/sandra/omain.html

Collection of Sandra Cisneros essays (by me, Sarajini) Greetings, you have stumbled upon my e-chest of Sandra Cisneros stuff. This will be part of my web page for my favorite "loose women" authors...Wayward Girls and Wicked Women. (the title comes from an anthology of "women writers who don't play by the rules," edited by my most favorite author, Angela Carter.) Cisneros definitely deserves to be designated as one! I hope that I can introduce you to some of Cisneros' work with my articles, and entertain you or heighten your reading experience if you know her. List of contents: Cisneros' Voice Cisneros as the Only Girl Cisneros and Marriage Sandra Cisneros vs. Emily Dickinson ... A Cisneros Glossary A selection from "Down There" from Loose Woman (coming soon) Bibliography Links to web resources on Cisneros Back to home Sign guestbook or email the author of this page. View guestbook

60. Woman Hollering Creek By Sandra Cisneros Woman Hollering Creek by sandra cisneros. To suffer for love is good.The pain all sweet somehow. cisneros, sandra. House on Mango Street. http://www.lili.org/isl/ltai/ThemesBooks/cisneros.htm

Woman Hollering Creek by Sandra Cisneros "[T]o suffer for love is good. The pain all sweet somehow. In the end." Cleofilas, in the title story of Cisneros' collection, believes this message, expressed in her favorite soap operas. But her romantic fantasies about life suffer when she faces the ordinary man who is her husband, who can be abusive, who lives in a macho world where women have little value beyond sexual use. Even the hardworking life she knew in her father's home seems preferable. The last we see of her, she is escaping back home to Mexico, riding to the Greyhound bus station with a woman named Felice, crossing Woman Hollering Creek. Cisneros does not allow us to know what becomes of Cleofilas; there is no "happy ending" in which she finds herself or achieves any kind of power. But there is hope, for on the bridge over the creek, she laughs with Felice, whose independent life and strength amazes her; she shares that moment of freedom to "holler like Tarzan." In this book, Cisneros contributes to the growing number of Mexican-American and other Hispanic writers published in the U.S.in the last twenty years. These writers reveal the poverty, the violence, the confusion of living in two cultures. But they also celebrate their roots, their parents' and grandparents' ways of life, preserved in big city

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