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Article: Haunting the borderlands: La Llorona in Sandra Cisneros's "Woman Hollering Creek"
- Article from:
- Frontiers - A Journal of Women's Studies
- Article date:
- January 1, 1996
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CopyrightCopyright Frontiers Publishing, Inc. 1996. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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She is crying for her dead child
the lover gone, the lover not yet come:
Her grito splinters the night
-- Gloria Anzaldua, "My Black Angelos,"
Borderlands/La Frontera(1)
"If I were asked what it is I write about," Sandra Cisneros commented in a lecture in 1986, "I would have to say I write about those ghosts inside that haunt me, that will not let me sleep, of that which even memory does not like to mention."(2) Poverty, the unrecorded lives of the powerless, the unheard voices of "thousands of silent women," are some of the ghosts that haunt The House on Mango Street,(3) dedicated in two languages, "A las Mujeres/To the Women." Cisneros's narrator Esperanza chronicles ...