Woman Hollering Creek
Essays

The work of Sandra Cisneros entitled: "Woman Hollering Creek" is a story of a woman named Cleofilas and is of the nature that "extends and revises" histories of women who have attempted to escape poverty or other life…

Latina Discourse -- Fiction and Non-Fiction

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The development of fiction from its nascent stages until today's contemporary works is a storied one. Many features mark contemporary fiction and differentiate it from the classics of the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries:…

In her 1991 collection of stories entitled Woman Hollering Creek and Other Short Stories, Sandra Cisneros offers some compelling insights into the cultural lives, personal experiences and romantic endeavors of an…

There are a multitude of similarities between Sandra Cisneros' Woman Hollering Creek and Nawal al-Saadawi's In Camera. Women are persecuted in each of these stories in both physical and intellectual means. However, the authors vary considerably in the context in which this persecution occurs--for the former it is for romance, for the latter it is for politics.

America has long considered itself a cultural "melting pot," drawing immigrants from all over the world to the freedoms and opportunities of the first modern democracy. The canon of American literature, however, was for…

Calculating the value of literature is much like calculating the value of a work of art—it's mostly personal taste with some somewhat objective criteria (golden ratios and such). So what makes a good book? Mostly, that's up to you. Did you enjoy reading it? Did it meet your objective in reading? Why you read has as much to do with the quality of the work as the work itself. However, in order to equitably evaluate literature, we need to look at why a writer writes, and not just why readers read. If Socrates is to be believed, only the examined life is worth living. Considering how enduring that thought has been, it probably has some merit, and we can apply that to why writers write—to examine life. A piece of prose or poetry that somehow makes us see—as writers and readers—the truth of who we are, good and bad. That's the literature worth reading.

The real-life Woman Hollering Creek is a small waterway located in Central Texas. It is supposed that the name is a loose translation of the Spanish La Llorana or "weeping woman." This is a folktale of the area wherein…

Sandra Cisneros's short story "Woman Hollering Creek," and "Still I Rise," a poem by Maya Angelou both make statements about race, power, and gender in America.