Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories Sandra Cisneros

Sandra Cisneros’ Woman Hollering Creek is rife with elements of postcolonial ideologies that insert themselves into the story and create tension for the protagonist by “othering” her and her family through a form of orientalism that stereotypes...

"Bien Pretty," as the title implies, is a story that invests in appearance. Throughout the story, prettiness is used as a proxy for authenticity and confidence in one’s identity, while ugliness is a stand-in for performed identity. Flavio’s...

Feminism often takes many forms depending mainly upon intersectionality. Being a straight white woman and being a gay black woman means two entirely different things. Thus is the case with Chicana women. They have had experiences unique to them,...

Chicano people come from a “mixed Spanish, Indian and Anglo descent” (Madsen 6) and Chicana is the feminine equivalent of the former term. Chicana literature is about the issues and struggles that women have to face and even the difficulties that...