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Author Rivera, Carmen Haydee.

Title Border crossings and beyond : the life and works of Sandra Cisneros / Carmen Haydee Rivera.

Imprint Santa Barbara, Calif. : Praeger, c2009.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 2nd Floor Stacks  813.54 C497Br 2009    ---  Available
Description xiv, 127 p. ; 25 cm.
Series Women writers of color series
Women writers of color.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents An artist in the making -- Telling to live: an approach to Sandra Cisneros' fictional world -- "Entering into the serpent": a provocative Chicana poetics -- Caramelo: weaving family and national history into storytelling -- A rebellious soul in San Antonio: Sandra Cisneros' social activism.
Summary 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.
Subject Cisneros, Sandra.
Mexican American women authors -- Biography.
Women authors, American -- 20th century -- Biography.
Mexican American women -- Biography
Mexican American authors -- Biography.
Authors, American -- 20th century -- Biography.
ISBN 9780313345180 (alk. paper)
031334518X (alk. paper)
Standard No. DEBBG BV036128057
CDX 10174737

 
    
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