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    A Historical/Biographical Approach to Sandra Cisneros's "Never Marry a Mexican"
    • Oct 4, 2018
    • 8 min

    A Historical/Biographical Approach to Sandra Cisneros's "Never Marry a Mexican"

    Note: This is an academic exercise that takes a historical / biographical critical approach to Sandra Cisneros’s short story, "Never Marry a Mexican." This is not intended to be a well-developed critical paper, but it should prove a useful tool for examining one aspect of Cisneros’s work. It should also serve to help students learn more about the use of the historical / biographical critical approach to literature. Motivation in "Never Marry a Mexican" © Copyright 1999, Sky
    A Feminist Approach to “Woman Hollering Creek”
    • Oct 2, 2018
    • 3 min

    A Feminist Approach to “Woman Hollering Creek”

    Note: This is an academic exercise that takes a feminist critical approach to Sandra Cisneros’s short story “Woman Hollering Creek.” This is not intended to be a well-developed critical paper, but it should prove a useful tool for examining one aspect of Cisneros’s work. It should also serve to provide an example for students of the feminist critical approach to literature. [*] In A Literature of Their Own, Elaine Showalter argued that literary subcultures all go through th
    A Formalist Reading of "Woman Hollering Creek"
    • Oct 1, 2018
    • 6 min

    A Formalist Reading of "Woman Hollering Creek"

    Note: This is an academic exercise that uses formalism (new criticism) to examine Sandra Cisneros’s short story “Woman Hollering Creek.” This is not intended to be a well-developed critical paper, but it should prove a useful tool for examining one aspect of Cisneros’s work. It should also serve to provide an example for students of the formalistic critical approach to literature. If a critic were to take into account external historical and social considerations when inter