Ay Tú!
University of Texas Press (Verlag)
978-1-4773-2990-0 (ISBN)
Sandra Cisneros (b. 1954), author of the acclaimed novel The House on Mango Street and a recipient of the National Medal of the Arts, a MacArthur “Genius Grant” and the PEN/Nabokov Award for International Literature, was the first Chicana to be published by a major publishing house. ¡Ay Tú! is the first book to offer a comprehensive, critical examination of her life and work as a whole. Edited by scholars Sonia Saldívar-Hull and Geneva M. Gano, this volume addresses themes that pervade Cisneros’s oeuvre, like romantic and erotic love, female friendship, sexual abuse and harassment, the exoticization of the racial and ethnic “other,” and the role of visual arts in the lives of everyday people. Essays draw extensively on the newly opened Cisneros Papers, housed in the Wittliff Collections at Texas State University, and the volume concludes with a new long-form interview with Cisneros by the award-winning journalist Macarena Hernández.
As these essays reveal, Cisneros’s success in the literary field was integrally connected to the emergent Chicana feminist movement and the rapidly expanding Chicanx literary field of the late twentieth century. This collection shows that Cisneros didn’t achieve her groundbreaking successes in isolation and situates her as a vital Chicana feminist writer and artist.
Sonia Saldívar-Hull is a professor emerita of English at the University of Texas at San Antonio. She is the author of Feminism on the Border: Chicana Literature and Politics. Geneva M. Gano is a professor of English at Texas State University and the author of The Little Art Colony and US Modernism.
List of Illustrations
Preface. ¡Ay Tú! ¡Sí Yo! Nosotrxs: The Sinvergüenza Collective
Introduction. Her Fabulous Career: Sandra Cisneros’s Life/Work (Sonia Saldívar-Hull and Geneva M. Gano)
Part I. ¡Ay, Qué Rico! Close Readings
1. Lingering with Complicity in Caramelo (Mary Pat Brady)
2. The Racial City: Navigating Chicago’s Racialized Space in The House on Mango Street (Olga L. Herrera)
3. Telenovela Feeling in Sandra Cisneros’s Loose Woman: “I Think of Me to Gluttony” (Adriana Estill)
4. “You Were Telling Cochinadas”: Performative Metaphors for Storytelling in Sandra Cisneros’s Caramelo (Shanna M. Salinas)
5. Mapping the Decolonial: Community Cartography in Sandra Cisneros’s Woman Hollering Creek (Teresa Hernández)
Part II. Love, Shame, and Sinvergüenzas
6. “Love the Only Way I Know How”: Cultivating Erotic Conocimiento in the Work of Sandra Cisneros (Belinda Linn Rincón)
7. From Marginal to Sin Vergüenza: Overcoming School-Inflicted Shame through Transgressive Literary Aesthetics in Sandra Cisneros’s Life and Writing (Georgina Guzmán)
8. The Loose Woman and the Men of Ill Repute (Richard T. Rodríguez)
9. Wild, Wicked, and Crazy Brave Tongues: Locating the Collaborative Origins of Sandra Cisneros’s and Joy Harjo’s Poetic Voices (Audrey Goodman)
10. “Hay Que Inventarnos / We Must Invent Ourselves”: The Impact of Norma Alarcón and Sandra Cisneros’s Friendship on Chicana Feminist Literature (Sara A. Ramírez)
11. Faxes, Friendship, and the Rise of Chicana Literature: Examining the Archive of Letters between Sandra Cisneros and Helena María Viramontes (Linda Margarita Greenberg)
Part III. ¡Adelante! Seeing and Listening with Cisneros
12. La Sandra como Artista: The Visual Cisneros (Tey Marianna Nunn)
13. Sin Vergüenza: A Plática with Sandra Cisneros (Macarena Hernández)
Acknowledgments
Contributors
Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 01.10.2024 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | 11 b&w illus. |
| Verlagsort | Austin, TX |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 178 x 254 mm |
| Gewicht | 540 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-4773-2990-0 / 1477329900 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-4773-2990-0 / 9781477329900 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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