Contribution to Book
Harvesting a Chicana Cultural Landscape: The Manipulation in Sandra Cisneros’s Woman Hollering Creek
Landscapes of Writing in Chicano Literature
(2013)
Abstract
One of the most prevalent themes characterizing Chicana/o literature relates to land, nature, and the environment. An examination of narrative precursors leading to the Chicano Civil Rights Movement, as well as those leading to the development of a Chicana/o literary expression during the 1960s and 1970s, speaks to an unfading thematic tradition. The continuation of detailed textual expressions of landscapes in Chicana/o narratives underlines a specific cultural relationship indicative of a Chicana/o cultural interrelation to the land. The focus on land and landscapes in Chicana/o literature elucidates how people see, organize, and situate themselves within their own universe. Descriptions of land contextualize and define Chicana/o cultural reality as Chicanas/os reckon with how environmental factors play a role in shaping and framing reality as experience. Landscapes become frameworks wherein ideologies of historical nature are represented through a cultural lens making the author’s ideas as well as perceptions about land culturally relevant and significant.
Keywords
- Cultural landscapes,
- Short stories,
- Women -- Identity -- Fiction,
- Mexican American women,
- Sandra Cisneros. Women Hollering Creek -- Criticism and interpretation
Disciplines
Publication Date
2013
Editor
Imelda Martín-Junquera
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN
978-1-137-35345-0
DOI
10.1057/9781137353450_3
Publisher Statement
© Imelda Martín-Junquera 2013
Published by Palgrave Macmillan, New York
Citation Information
Avilés, Elena. “Harvesting a Chicana Cultural Landscape: The Manipulation in Sandra Cisneros’s Woman Hollering Creek.” In Landscapes of Writing in Chicano Literature. Ed. Imelda Martín Junquera. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. 23-32.