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Last year I read Sandra Cisneros' House on Mango Street and felt an affinity toward her as I discovered that she grew up on the northwest side of Chicago and attended the University of Iowa Writers Workshop. Mostly an autobiographical account, Mango Street detailed the coming of age of a Mexican American girl in Chicago. Since debuting with her novella, Cisneros paved the way for a generation of Latin American women who I refer to fondly as las amigas. After moving to San Antonio, Cisneros rose
"Because those who suffer have special powers, don't they? The power of understanding someone else's pain. And understanding is the beginning of healing."Ow.No one writes like her.
Cisneros’ writing is beautiful and I enjoyed hearing the experiences of Mexicans both in Mexico and the US. My favorite stories were “One Holy Night”, “Eleven” and “Bien Pretty”. From “Bien Pretty”: “...that language murmured by grandmothers, those words that smelled liked your house, like flour tortillas, and the inside of your daddy’s hat, like everyone talking in the kitchen at the same time, or sleeping with the windows open...”
The power of these stories is in how real the characters are."In the Bay, whenever I got depressed, I always drove out to Ocean Beach. Just to sit. And, I don't know, something about looking at water, how it just goes and goes and goes, something about that I found very soothing. As if somehow I were connected to every ripple that was sending itself out and out until it reached another shore."
Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories contains 22 short stories about the female experience, from one paged drabbles, like "My Lucy Friend Who Smells Like Corn," to short stories that are so long they could be considered novellas, like "Eyes of Zapata."This collection is less than 200 pages yet packs more of a punch than 500 paged novels I've read. Sandra Cisneros is extremely readable an accessible. I read that her goal was that anyone could pick up her books and understand them, and I believ...
I expected to like this more. I really enjoyed her poetry collection "My Wicked Wicked Ways." I recommend people check it out. However, this collection of short stories were bland to me. Can Cisneros write beautifully? Yes, she can. But these stories are don't have much plot driving them. Some of them are simply vignettes. The collection's literary value comes from the variety of Chicana experience it includes. There are many different women here. However, a man is central to almost all of them
So many stories in this book are absolute art. There are perhaps two or three tales that did not grip me, but otherwise I have read all the others at least five times over the years. Cisneros truly found her voice here - poetic, hypnotic, erotic storytelling with multi-cultural and feminist undertones. I truly envy her gift in this collection.
3.5 stars.I have this dream where one day I anthologize all my favorite short stories. A couple of stories from this collection would make that anthology easily. Especially the title story which I adored.What Sandra Cisneros does best is give voice to women so often silenced. And those voices are strong and brave and flawed and human. She also does not shy away from using Mexican slang with no translation which I really appreciated. So many of the cultural things she discusses weren't something
I wish I liked this since so many people I respect sing its praises. Instead of being drawn into Cisneros's voice or themes, I found the execution of the stories to be largely frustrating. Cisneros likes to use lists in her stories, lists of sounds, lists of items for sale at the grocery, lists of things that remind her of a child's ear, etc. For me, this got old very quickly, and became a huge distraction from whatever the story was. I wanted to like her insight into Mexican-American culture. I...
I feel somewhat conflicted with this collection. The quality of the writing, the tone, the technicality of it merits a high rating but I got fed up with the underlying theme pretty fast and it is on this basis that my final rating lies. The stories, for the most part, are about women who to their detriment have absolutely centered their lives around men. I want to know more about these women's characters, their motivations, their drive, their struggles, their journey ... but instead of getting a...
Sandra Cisneros writes in the voice of my mother, my grandmother, my aunts, my sisters, and my friends. I experience every word as if I'm a child overhearing the adults' kitchen table conversations. I am intimately familiar with the sights and smells of her settings and the joys and frustrations of her characters. These stories didn't leave me with a feeling of nostalgia, but with that feeling of having shared life-shaping experiences with your best friend.
This collection of stories is my new bible. Long live Sandra Cisneros!
~De poeta y loco todos tenemos un poco~ ❤️🔥 Some snapshots of my fave book so far this year, Sandra Cisneros’s WOMAN HOLLERING CREEK, a collection of short stories that provide snapshots into Chicana/Mexican women’s lives, focusing on the joys, hardships, and sacrifices that come with being a woman/femme, from their juventudes to adulthoods. Some scattered thoughts: ❤️🔥 This book made me reflect on how so many traditional Latina names—Dolores, Soledad, Esperanza, Consuelo— have to do wit...
I enjoyed her novel The House on Mango Street and really liked one of her poetry collections, so I was not surprised to see that she can write some fine short fiction, as well. Most of these stories are about the Mexican or Mexican American experience, told mostly from a female perspective. Most are pretty short but there are also a couple of longer ones. This is from 1991. I want to find out if she wrote a later collection.
