Woman Hollering Creek a Través de la Música: Articulating Mexicanidad to Pochismo.
This essay intervenes in contemporary scholarship on Sandra Cisneros's Woman Hollering Creek (1991) by examining the canciones she uses as epigraphs and their relationship to the midtiple nationalisms that Chicanalos actively negotiate. I argue that Cisneros's decision to include powerfully national...
| Publicado en: | Aztlan: Journal of Chicano Studies Vol. 36; no. 1; pp. 99 - 128 |
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| Formato: | Literary Criticism |
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Chicano Studies Research Center
Spring2011
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